The DC History Conference celebrates historian and educator Letitia Woods Brown with this lecture featuring a distinguished scholar of DC history. With the support of the Murray family, we honor Letitia Woods Brown for her contribution to the study of DC history.-- Black women—enslaved, fugitive, and free—imagined new identities and lives for themselves in 19th-century Washington, DC. The capital city was founded on the premise of liberty, and yet it was a center of urban slavery and an abolitionist target. Nunley reveals how Black women navigated the growing slave trade, strict Black codes, and rigid social restrictions intended to prevent them from ever experiencing liberty, self-respect, and power. She traces how Black women developed their own ideas about liberty as they navigated the city, escaped from slavery, initiated lawsuits for their freedom, created economic opportunities, pursued education, and participated in political work. In telling these stories, Nunley places Black women at the center of DC history in a momentous era. --About Letitia Woods BrownLetitia Woods Brown was born on October 24, 1915, in Tuskegee, Alabama, to a family with strong ties to the Tuskegee Institute—known today as Tuskegee University. She received her BS from Tuskegee Institute and taught elementary school in Alabama before pursuing her graduate studies at Ohio State University and Harvard University. In 1966, Dr. Brown received her PhD in history from Harvard University after completing a dissertation centered on free and enslaved African Americans in Washington, DC. She went on to teach at Howard University and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. Dr. Brown joined the faculty of George Washington University in 1971 and taught there until her untimely passing in 1976.
Speaker
Tamika Nunley, PhD
Associate Professor of History , Cornell University
Tamika Nunley is Associate Professor of History and the Sandler Family Faculty Fellow of American studies at Cornell University. In addition to her many articles, essays, and reviews, she is the author of At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, DC, which received the 2021 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award. This year, Dr. Nunley will release her new book, The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia.
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