The Stained Glass Window with David Levering Lewis

Mondays at Beinecke

A special look at the family history by David Levering Lewis, focused on the Yale-related story of his father, John Henry Lewis, a 1913 graduate of the Yale Divinity School. Lewis will draw on his recently published family history, “The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958,” as he discusses the story of his father, who was born in Georgia in 1882, and went on to a distinguished career as a pastor in Georgia, Missouri, and California, and leadership in educational institutions in Arkansas, Ohio, and Georgia – the latter as President of Morris Brown College. When he was a student at Yale, John Henry Lewis was part of the group of Black students who reactivated Zeta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

Zoom webinar registration: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3-bjbzhaTm2vHntDtK2vJg

David Levering Lewis is a distinguished historian. Among other many honors, he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography on two occasions: in 1993, “W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919,” and then again in 1993 for the second volume, “W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963”. David Levering Lewis credits his father with first introducing him to Du Bois. David Levering Lewis credits his father for his introducing him to Du Bois.

Mondays at Beinecke online talks focus on materials from the collections and include an opening presentation at 4pm followed by conversation and Q & A beginning about 4:30pm until 5pm. Episodes are generally recorded and published on the library's YouTube channel within a few weeks of the original live program.