From BGSU DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Dr. Modupe Labode will present the 2025 Black History Month Guest Lecture at Bowling Green State University, hosted by the Department of History as part of BGSU’s Black History Month program. The free public lecture will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 11:30 a.m. in Olscamp Hall 115.
Labode is the Curator of the Division of Political History at the National Museum of American History.
The lecture “Reckoning with Remembrance: Interpreting the Life and Legacy of Emmett Till at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History” will focus on the interpretation of a vandalized historical marker commemorating the site where Emmett Till’s body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River in 1955.
Labode will discuss the exhibition team’s ongoing relationship with the communities in Mississippi that created historical markers for the sites related to Emmett Till’s life and legacy in Mississippi. She will focus on practices of Restorative History and the meaning of interpreting Black history in a general history museum.
