In this lecture Jessica Ingram will discuss her recently released book Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial (UNC Press 2020). With Road Through Midnight, the result of nearly a decade of research and fieldwork, Ingram unlocks powerful and complex histories to reframe commonplace landscapes in the American South as sites of both remembrance and resistance and transform the way we regard both what has happened and what’s happening now—as the fight for civil rights goes on and memorialization has become the literal subject of contested cultural and societal ground. She will be available afterwards for Q&A and a book signing. Books will be available for purchase.

Jessica Ingram (Nashville, TN 1977) works with multi-media and the archive to explore the ethos of communities, and notions of progress and resistance in American culture. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Oxford American, Vice, Wired and California Sunday Magazine.  Her collaborative projects have been featured at the Sundance Film Festival and installed permanently at Oakland International Airport, Birmingham International Airport, and Oakland Museum of California. She is a recipient of a 2020 NEA Artworks grant. Ingram is a professor in the College of Fine Arts at Florida State University.