Session H1: After Dinner Talk: Einstein on Race and Racism

7:00 PM–7:45 PM, Friday, October 19, 2007
Memorial Student Center - 224

Chair: David Ernst, Texas A&M University

Abstract ID: BAPS.2007.TSF.H1.1

Abstract: H1.00001 : Einstein on Race and Racism, presented by Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor

7:00 PM–7:45 PM

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Authors:

  Fred Jerome
  Rodger Taylor

It is little-known that physicist Albert Einstein strongly held the view that ``Racism is America's worst disease.'' Einstein was active in the fight against racism from the 1930's until his death in 1955. Included among his friends were a number of important Afro-American figures, including the educator W.E.B. DuBois, the actor and basso profundo singer Paul Robeson, and the soprano Marian Anderson. Based on the authors' work ``Einstein on Race and Racism.''

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