Feb 04
Black Power and Political Repression
Description
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Black Power slogan articulated by Stokely Carmichael, Willie Ricks and SNCC in June 1966. Black Power was marked by triumph and tragedy. The triumphs include imaginative Grassroots agendas and concrete demands for justice as well as persistent protests against racism and poverty; the tragedies include the assassination of Malcolm X and Dr. King, the Orangeburg Massacre and the unjust imprisonment of legions of organizers and leaders like North Carolina’s Wilmington Ten—among them Ben Chavis.
Please join the conversation with Rhonda Williams, author of Concrete Demands: The Search for Black Power in the 20th Century; Kenneth Janken, author of The Wilmington Ten; and Erik McDuffie, author of Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism and the Making of Black Left Feminism and an important new biographical study of Malcolm X’s mother, Louise Langdon Little.
Speakers
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Kenneth Janken
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Erik McDuffie
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Erik S. McDuffie is a Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research and teaching interests include the African diaspora, the Midwest, black feminism, black queer theory, black radicalism, urban history, and black masculinity. He is the author of Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011). The book won the 2012 Wesley-Logan Prize from the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, as well as the 2011 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. He is also the author of several scholarly articles and essays published in African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal; African Identities; American Communist History; Biography; Journal of African American History; Journal of West African History; Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International Women of Color; Radical History Review; Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society; Women, Families, and Children of Color among other journals and edited volumes. His most recent book is The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom.
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Rhonda Williams
Case Western Reserve University
Recording
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