Darlene Clark Hine, Ph.D., John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of History at Michigan State University, will give the inaugural lecture for Buffalo State College's Monroe Fordham Regional History Center at 7p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18 in Rockwell Hall. Her talk is titled "Black Professionals And Race Consciousness: Origins of the Civil Rights Movement, 1890-1950." A book signing will follow the event.



Hine will also receive a State University of New York honorary doctorate of humane letters at Buffalo State College on Sept. 19 at the college's annual academic convocation.



Hine has edited and written many books on African American history, particularly on women. Most recently she co-edited The Harvard Guide to African-American History (2001). Her many honors include the Otto Wirth Alumni Award for Outstanding Scholarship from Roosevelt University and the Special Achievement Award from the Kent State University Alumni Association. In 1990, her book Black Women in White, was named "Outstanding Book" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights, received the Lavinia L. Dock Book Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing and was awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. Hine received her B.A. from Roosevelt University and her Ph.D. from Kent State University.



The Monroe Fordham Regional History Center was created last year to promote the study of regional history, provide for scholarly publications and research and foster the inclusion of regional history in the curricula of Western New York school systems.



The lecture is sponsored by Rural Metro Ambulance,. the Fordham Center Civic Advisory Board, the Buffalo State College President's Office and the Buffalo State College department of History and Social Studies Education.



The lecture is free and open to the public.