Awards:
NEH Summer Institute Participant Harvard University, 2013
National Endowment for the Humanities
The institute is co-directed by Waldo Martin (history, University of California, Berkeley) and Patricia Sullivan (history, University of South Carolina). It investigates the following, in four weekly segments: 1) the significance of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era for understanding the evolution of civil rights in the United States, including black political action and the impact of African-American migration to the North; 2) further developments during the Jim Crow period, including the founding of the NAACP and the impact of World War I, the Depression, and World War II; 3) postwar issues, including the desegregation of the armed forces, connections between the U.S. civil rights movement and Cold War anti-colonialism, the impact of Brown v. Board of Education, and women and religion in the movement; and 4) civil rights in the 1960s, including cross-racial alliances, direct action in the South, the nature of black leadership, the year 1963 as a crossroads, and the rise of Black Power. Visiting faculty include Eric Foner (history, Columbia University), Leon Litwack (history, University of California, Berkeley), Bettye Collier-Thomas (history, Temple University), Raymond Gavins (history, Duke University), Gerald Early (English, Washington University), Peter Guralnick (writer-in-residence, Vanderbilt University), Peniel Joseph (history, Tufts University), Blair Kelley (history, North Carolina State University), Kimberley Phillips (history, Brooklyn College, City University of New York), and Stanley Nelson (filmmaker).