Stephen Tuck, Pembroke fellow and Professor of Modern History at Oxford recently spoke via ZOOM to some 50 Hunter College students in Professor David Julian Hodges’ Anthropology of the Civil Rights Movement” class.  Terry Slesinski-Wykowski ’82, the first Hunter College graduate to attend Pembroke, arranged the lecture.

Prof. Tuck discussed his book, The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story Of Antiracist Protest in which he argues that while Malcolm X was viewed by many in the United States as a dangerous extremist, he was seen by others elsewhere in the world as a leader in the struggle of blacks against white supremacy.  

Slesinski-Wykowski had earlier interviewed Prof. Tuck for her anthology, Rethinking Debatable Moments in the Civil Rights Movement: Learning for the Present Moment, (Cognella, 2019), co-authored with Professor Hodges .