Name: Lashawn Harris, Author of “Tell Her Story”
Start: 2025-09-04T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-04T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Queens Public Library Langston Hughes

$Lashawn Harris, Author of \u201cTell Her Story\u201d$

In Conversation with Dominique Jean-Louis, Ph.D, Chief Historian of the Center for Brooklyn History.
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LASHAWN HARRIS, AUTHOR OF TELL HER STORY: ELEANOR BUMPURS & THE POLICE KILLING THAT GALVANIZED NYC

In Conversation with Dominique Jean-Louis, Ph.D, Chief Historian of the Center for Brooklyn History

Bumpurs & The Police Killing that Galvanized New York City, in conversation with historian Dominique Jean-Louis.” Harris shines a new light on the history of anti-Black police violence and of the watershed anti-policing movement Eleanor Bumpurs’s M**der birthed. Once a childhood neighbor of Bumpers, LaShawn uses eyewitness accounts, legal documents, civil rights pamphlets, and more to look through the life and death of Eleanor Bumpers. Books will be available for sale and signing.

LaShawn Harris is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University, the former managing and book review editor for the Journal of African American History (JAAH), and a scholar of African American and Black women’s histories. The recipient of the Organization of American Historians’ Darlene Clark Hine Award and the Philip Taft Labor Prize from the Labor and Working Class History Association, her work has been featured in several outlets, including TV One, Huffington Post and the History Channel among others.

Dominique Jean-Louis, Ph.D, is the Chief Historian of the Center for Brooklyn History at the Brooklyn Public Library. She received her Ph.D in US History from New York University, with her doctoral research focusing on race, ethnicity, and immigration in post-Civil Rights Era Brooklyn schools. Dominique regularly writes and lectures on Blackness in America, schools and education, and New York City history.

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