Karen Kruse Thomas of Johns Hopkins University gives her talk, “Deluxe Jim Crow Health Policy: The Bridge between the New Deal and the Civil Rights Movement,” at The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories, a conference hosted by the Southern Oral History Program, April 2-4, 2009. For more video, visit the LCRM Common Room.
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Paul Ortiz of the University of Florida comments on papers by Zaragosa Vargas and William P. Jones at The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories, a conference hosted by the Southern Oral History Program, April 2-4, 2009. For more video, visit the LCRM Common Room.
Zaragosa Vargas of the University of California at Santa Barbara gives his talk, “The Other Struggle for Equal Rights: Mexican-American Labor Activists Fight for Political Rights in South Texas, 1946-1963,” at The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories, a conference hosted by the Southern Oral History Program, April 2-4, 2009. For more video, visit the LCRM Common Room.
John C. Boger, Dean of the University of North Carolina’s School of Law, discusses papers by Nancy MacLean and Robert O. Self at The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories, a conference hosted by the Southern Oral History Program, April 2-4, 2009. For more video, visit the LCRM Common Room.
Robert O. Self of Brown University gives his talk, “Sexual Citizenship and the Privacy Quandary in American Politics, 1965-1976″ at The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories, a conference hosted by the Southern Oral History Program, April 2-4, 2009. For more videos, visit the LCRM Common Room.
Rounding out our Black Power series, Yohuru Williams of Fairfield University reflects on historical narrative and Black Power as he comments on Peniel E. Joseph’s paper at The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories, a conference hosted by the Southern Oral History Program, April 2-4, 2009.
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Donna Murch of Rutgers University comments on a paper given by Peniel E. Joseph at The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories, a conference hosted by the Southern Oral History Program (sohp.org), April 2-4, 2009.
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Kevin K. Gaines, of the University of Michigan, gives his talk, “African-American Expatriates in Ghana and ‘The Long Hot Summer of the 1960s’” at The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories, a conference hosted by the Southern Oral History Program, April 2-4, 2009.
Mary L. Dudziak gives her talk at our April conference, “Thurgood Marshall Encounters the ‘True Sons of Africa’: Legal Rights and Wrongs at Kenya’s Independence.” For more from this panel on the global dimensions of the civil rights movement, visit the LCRM Common Room.
Renee C. Romano of Oberlin College, gives her talk “A Really Long ‘Long Civil Rights Movement’? Memory Work and the Struggle for Racial Equality” at the Southern Oral History Program’s conference, The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories. The conference took place in Chapel Hill, NC, from April 2-4, 2009.
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