TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – A Johns Hopkins history professor conducting research in race, sex and the Civil Rights movement will give a talk at The University of Alabama at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 19.

Dr. Jane Dailey, associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, will present the eighth Summersell Lecture in Southern History in UA’s ten Hoor Hall, room 30. Her talk is presented by the Summersell Fund in Southern History and UA’s history department and is entitled “The Theology of Massive Resistance: Sex, Segregation, and the Sacred after Brown.”

A graduate of Yale University, Dailey earned her doctorate at Princeton University. She teaches courses on political and social history and is the author of “Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Post-Emancipation Virginia,” published by the University of North Carolina Press.