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Lecture: African Americans in 20th Century Denmark Searching for Utopia
October 24, 2019 @ 7:00 pm | HOSTED BY: Nordic Museum7:00 pm | Cost: $10 – $15
National Nordic Museum
2655 NW Market Street
Seattle,
WA
98107
United States
w/ Professor Ethelene Whitmire, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Afro-American Studies
Why did African American scholars, jazz musicians, singers, journalists, artists, students, Black Panthers, conscientious objectors among many others go to Denmark to perform, study, and to live? What were they searching for? What did they find? Learn why Booker T. Washington, Dexter Gordon, Ella Fitzgerald and other well-known and many unknown African Americans were captivated by this small Scandinavian country.
Co-sponsored by UW Scandinavian Studies Department and the Northwest African American Museum.
Cost: $10 for Members; $15 general admission
EVENT LOCATION
2655 NW Market Street
Seattle, WA 98107 United States + Google Map
Phone: 206-789-5707
Website: http://nordicmuseum.org/