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Hallelujah, I'm a Travelin'!

I’ve been loading up on content this evening in part because I’ll be heading out of town for about ten days tomorrow.

First I head to Chicago where on Friday (April 29) I’ll be chairing a  panel, sitting on another, and participating in an author’s event for the Freedom Riders 50th Anniversary event this weekend. All events are at the Hyatt McCormick Place.

From there I fly to DC Saturday and will be heading to Charlottesville soon after. On Monday (May 2) I’ll be giving a talk at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at UVA as part of their forum series. My talk is “Freedom’s Main Line: The Freedom Rides at 50.” My talk is at 11:00. I hope to see you at both events.

There is talk of another event in Washington next week, so I’ll be sticking around until the weekend. If you are in Chicago or Charlottesville please come by.

And of course if you have not yet gotten your copy of Freedom’s Main Line in hardcover, supplies actually are running low in the lead up to the release of the paperback.

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

Areas of Focus:
Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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