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The Verne Moore Lecture Series presents UW-Madison Professor Mary Louise Roberts<\/h2>\n

Mary Louise Roberts’ talk, \u201cThe Leroy Henry Case: Sexual Violence and Allied Relations in Great Britain, 1944,\u201d takes place on Thursday, March 31, 2016, at 5 p.m. in the Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library on the University\u2019s River Campus.\u00a0 The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

\"poster\"<\/a>In May 1944, just days before the D-Day invasion, an African-American soldier, Leroy Henry, was accused of raping a British woman in Bath, a small city in southwest England.\u00a0 Before the case against Henry was resolved in an acquittal, it became an international cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre and an embarrassing scandal for the U.S. military.<\/p>\n

The British press first brought the case to light, attacking the U.S. military for a miscarriage of justice. British civilians in the Bath region then took up Henry\u2019s cause, running a grassroots petition campaign, which produced 33,000 signatures for Henry\u2019s reprieve. The international controversy reveals just how much race and sexuality were implicated in allied power relations, and was central to the conduct of the war in Western Europe, says Roberts.<\/p>\n

The case then caught the attention of the NAACP in New York and drew in diplomats, army officers, government officials, and civilians and human rights activists on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI truly believe what we did there was amazing,\u201d Roberts says of the American soldiers in Europe, \u201cBut I\u2019m interested in providing a richer and more realistic picture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roberts is the WARF Distinguished Lucie Aubrac Professor and Plaenert Bascom Professor of History at Wisconsin. Her latest book, What Soldiers Do: Sex, Power and American G.I.s in France, 1944-1946,<\/em> won the American Historical Association\u2019s Best Book in International History and the Gilbert Chinard Prize, Society for French Historical Studies and the Institut Fran\u00e7ais d’Amerique, 2014.<\/p>\n

The lecture is part of the history department\u2019s Verne Moore Lecture Series, an annual series that has been funded by a gift from University alumnus Verne Moore, Class of 1950, since 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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