The
Civil Rights Movement:
New
Approaches to the History of Race, Politics, and Human Rights
with
Professor Gerald Horne of the UNC Departments of History, Communications
Studies and African/Afro-American Studies
Saturday,
January 23, 1999, 10:00 am – 3:00 PM (lunch provided)
Toy
Lounge, 4th Floor of Dey Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
About
Professor Horne
About
this Seminar Topic
How
to Register
Links
to Websites Concerning this Topic
About
Professor Horne
Gerald Horne is
a Professor of History, Communication Studies, and African/Afro-American
Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is
also the director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center and the
director of the Institute of African-American Research. His publications
include Black & Red: W.E.B. DuBois & the Afro-American Response
to the Cold War, 1944-1963 (State University of New York Press, 1985),
Communist Front? The Civil Rights Congress, 1946-1956, (Fairleigh Dickinson
University Press, 1987), Thinking & Rethinking U.S. History,
(CIBC, 1988), Studies in Black: Progressive Views of the African-American
Experience, (Kendall-Hunt, 1992), Reversing Discrimination: The Case for
Affirmative Action, (International Publishers, 1992), Black Liberation-Red
Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party, (University of Delaware Press,
1994), Race for the Planet: The U.S. & the New World Order, (Kendall-Hunt.
l994), Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s, (University Press
of Virginia, l995), Testaments of Courage: Selections from Men's Slave
Narratives, (Franklin Watts, l995), and Powell v. Alabama: The Scottsboro
Boys and American Justice, (Franklin Watts, l997).
About
This Seminar Topic
This seminar will
focus on new approaches to the civil rights movement and, inferentially,
to African-American History itself. Specifically, we will seek to
demonstrate how the erosion of Jim Crow in the U.S., beginning in the l950s,
was no small product of international pressure and Cold War tensions.
We will also spend some time seeking to show how the pace and nature of
racial reform ever has been shaped by global pressure and forces from the
onset of the colonial era.
How
to Register
PHE events are open
to all current and future North Carolina school teachers, public and private,
as well as
faculty and graduate
students in local departments of history and schools of education.
Coffee and light
morning refreshments
will be served beginning at 9:30 am, and we will provide a free lunch.
Those who
attend will receive
a set of materials including the primary documents that will be discussed
at the seminar.
Each attendee who
completes the seminar will also receive a letter attesting to his or her
participation, which
may be given to
the appropriate authorities to receive renewal credit. There is no
fee for this event, but
you must register
in advance. To RSVP or if you have any questions, please call the
PHE office
(919-962-2385) and
leave a message, or e-mail our coordinator, Kathy Walbert (phe@unc.edu)
no later
than January 13.
We hope to see you on January 23.
Links
on the Civil Rights Movement
The Martin Luther
King Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
This website includes
both primary and secondary sources on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Will the Circle Be
Ubroken?
http://www.unbrokencircle.org/
This website focuses
on a public radio series on the Civil Rights Movement produced by the Southern
Regional Council. On the homepage, you can listen to audio clips,
read transcripts from the radio programs, and access a bibliography of
materials on the Civil Rights Movement.
The Martin Luther
King, Jr. National Historic Site On-Line Visitor Information Center
http://www.nps.gov/malu/home.htm
This site allows
you to view the historic site, and also to read the text of numerous speeches
and essays.
Rosa Parks Interview
from the Hall of Public Service
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0int-1
This page includes
the transcript of an interview with Rosa Parks, as well as photos.
There are also links to a biography and other information.
The National Civil
Rights Museum
http://www.midsouth.rr.com/civilrights/
This site, produced
by the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN, provides an interactive
tour of the museum.
Powerful Days
http://www.civilrightsphotos.com/
This website, "Powerful
Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore" was produced
by Pulitzer Prize winner John Kaplan as part of the requirements for his
Ohio University Master's of Science in Journalism. It includes several
photos, plus a biography of the photographer.
The Civil Rights
Movement: A Photographic History
http://neworleansonline.com/civrights.html
This site, from
A Gallery for Fine Photography in New Orleans, includes links to just a
few images, but they are useful ones.
African-American
History and Culture
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/afrhm.html
From the Library
of Congress's American Memory collection, Words and Deeds, this set of
materials includes NAACP papers on-line, as well as other resources for
African-American history.
The African American
Odyssey
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html
Also from the Library
of Congress, this collection includes important documents (including
maps, sheet music, letters, etc.) and images from Library of Congress documenting
African American history from slavery to civil rights.
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