Blair L.M. Kelley
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Blair L.M. Kelley

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Blair LM Kelley, PhD is an award-winning author, historian, and scholar of the African American experience. She is the president and director of the National Humanities Center, the only independent center for advanced study in the world dedicated exclusively to the humanities. Kelley is the author of three books. Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days, Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship which was awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize and Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class, which received the 2024 Brooklyn Library Book Award, 2024 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award, 2024 Philip Taft Labor History Prize, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in History. She holds both a M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Duke University and earned her B.A. from the University of Virginia in History and African and African American Studies. Follow her on Threads, Bluesky and Instagram @profblmkelley.
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