Freedom North: Civil Rights and Racial Justice in the Northeast and Midwest

Please join us on April 2nd for an online event on Freedom North: Civil Rights and Racial Justice in the Northeast and Midwest. Ashley Howard will present on Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement, which documents a critical moment in Black radical politics. Michelle Adams will extend this focus on the Black freedom movement in the Midwest to the city of Detroit, which she writes about in The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North. Hettie Williams will bring a feminist analysis to the Northern struggle in her discussion of The Georgia of the North: Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey. Finally, Brian Kwoba will discuss the life of legendary Black leftist intellectual Hubert Harrison who he writes about in Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism. Teachers can earn 2 CTLE credits. ABOUT CONVERSATIONS IN BLACK FREEDOM STUDIES The founding curators of this series, Professors Jeanne Theoharis (Brooklyn College/CUNY) and Komozi Woodard (Sarah Lawrence College), introduced a new paradigm that challenged the older geography, leadership, ideology, culture and chronology of Civil Rights historiography. Jeanne Theoharis continues in her role and is joined by Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine (Wayne State University) ) as co-curator. Komozi Woodard continues to advise the series from an emeritus position. Discussions take place on the first Thursday of each month. Learn more: http://www.blackfreedomstudies.org