LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ -- Dr. Clement Alexander Price, author and professor of history at Rutgers University, will deliver the fifth-annual Emanuel Levine History Lecture at Rider University on Tuesday, November 12, 1996 at 7:30 p.m. in the College of Business Administration. The lecture is open to the public.

Dr. Price will make a presentation on "Marion Thompson Wright and the Construction of New Jersey Afro-American History." He is currently writing a biography of Wright, a pioneering scholar in the history of New Jersey race relations and one of the nation's first professionally-trained female historians.

The lecture will examine Wright's work in the context of the second generation of African-American historians who labored as scholars on the eve of the modern civil rights movement. He will also discuss the trauma of Wright's private life as a black woman historian, university professor, mother, and social reformer during a period when gender barriers segmented modern black society.

Dr. Price is the author of numerous publications that explore African-American history and race relations in New Jersey and the United States. In addition, he is a former chairman of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a frequent panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Levine Lecture series is sponsored each year by the Rider University history department, and is named in honor of the late Dr. Emanuel Levine, a history professor at Rider for over 30 years prior to his death in 1980. Previous speakers in the series include James McPherson, Michael Zuckerman, Nell Irvin Painter, and Robert Darnton.

Rider University's Lawrenceville campus is located five miles south of Princeton and three miles north of Trenton on Route 206 in Lawrence Township. The campus is one-half mile south of exit 7A of Interstate 95.