FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMERICA, a documentary producer by her grand-niece Monica Land, is a portrait of a civil rights activist and the injustices in America that made her work essential.
This panel explores Jones-Branch's 2021 publication, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965.
This roundtable will discuss career pathways outside of academia including archival work, the National Park Service, and museum work.
In February 1945, the U.S. Army sent 855 black women from the Women’s Army Corps (WACs) to England and France to clear the backlog of mail in the European Theater of Operations. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the SixTripleEight, was the only all-black female battalion to serve in Europe during WWII. Confronted with racism and sexism from their own leadership and troops, they served with honor and distinction completing their mission in six months.
This roundtable/workshop/discussion involves questions and responses from preeminent scholars who are mentors and academic leaders in their fields.
A CRIME ON THE BAYOU chronicles the legal fight as it goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and in the process enshrines the Constitutional right to a jury trial at the state level.
This Plenary Session features panelists Bertis D. English, Eddie R. Cole, Crystal R. Sanders, Adam Harris, and Jelani M. Favors.
This Roundtable explores Treva Lindsey's publication, America, Goddam: Violence, Women, and The Struggle for Justice.
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This Plenary Session features panelists Cheryl T. Grills, Veronica T. Watson, Lewis H. Rogers Jr., and Joseph L. Green.
Storming Caesars Palace challenges the pernicious lie of the “Welfare Queen,” and highlights the visionary leadership of low-income grassroots organizers whose courage, tenacity and dreams could not be quashed, against all odds.
This Plenary Session features panelists Eboni Preston Goddard, Tina Naremore Jones, Josephine Bolling McCall, Phillip Howard, Joshua Jenkins, and Meg Ford.
Picturing Freedom: African Americans & Their Cars, A Photographic History
Growing Up in the United States of America