UVSC lecture to focus on vacations of blacks

OREM — American history professor Susan Sessions Rugh will lecture on black family vacation experiences after World War II at Utah Valley State College.

The lecture will be at 7 p.m. Monday in the Liberal Arts Building, Room 101.

Rugh, a professor at Brigham Young University, spent the past five years doing research for a book on the importance of vacations to middle-class Americans — whites, blacks, Jews and LDS. Her book explores the experiences of black families on their road trips during the civil rights movement. She relied on personal letters in the papers of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, archived at the Library of Congress, as well as travel guides at the Schomburg Center in Harlem.

Rugh's lecture is part of a six-part lecture series at UVSC focusing on turning points in history.