Micah Jones, a joint African American Studies and History major, has won the 2016 Wrexham Prize in the Humanities.

May 24, 2016

Micah Jones, a joint African American Studies and History major, has won the 2016 Wrexham Prize in the Humanities.  The Department of African American Studies nominated Jones for the prize, based on her combined essay in both of her majors.  The essay, “To Live for the Revolution:  The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Birth of Black Power Feminism,” probes the role of black and white women in SNCC, the activities and strategies that led them to articulate feminisms, and the effect of civil rights activism and Black Power on the women’s movement of the 1970s.  Deeply analytical and eloquently written, it revises scholarship on the origins of the women’s movement in the civil rights era.  Yale College awards the Wrexham Prize to the senior who has written the best senior essay in the field of humanities.