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Historian to present abolition lecture on Galesburg, Knox College history

Galeburg was founded almost two centuries ago by anti-slavery advocates.

At 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, Historian Matthew Norman will deliver a lecture about Galesburg’s African American community in the context of Galesburg and Knox College’s history.

The lecture, titled “The Struggle for Equality in an Abolition City,” will be held in the Sanderson Room in the Galesburg Public Library.

Tomorrow’s talk is paid for by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant that is supporting an 18-month initiative to digitize historic documents and articles related to Galesburg’s black community.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Norman is an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati’s Blue Ash campus and has taught at the Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania and Knox College.

The 1993 Knox grad was also project director and historian for the Lincoln Papers Project, which compiled notes, speeches, letters and all sorts of documents related to Abraham Lincoln.

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