Women in the 20th Century US Civil Rights Movement
This workshop will focus on the twentieth-century U.S. Civil Rights movement from the perspective of women. We will consider competing definitions of leadership, class, race, and gender dynamics within the movement as well as the cultural dynamics of political organizing and social change. We will explore the ways that elements of contemporary popular culture, especially film, remember the civil rights movement.
Speakers
Professor Barkley Brown joined the Department in 1997. She holds a joint appointment with history and women's studies and is an affiliate faculty in African American Studies and American Studies. Professor Barkley Brown is co-editor of the two-volume Major Problems in African-American History (2000) and the two-volume Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1993). Her articles have appeared in Signs, Feminist Studies, History Workshop, Sage, Public Culture, and The Journal of Urban History. She has twice been awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Publication Prize for best article in African-American Women's History. She has also won the A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize for best article in southern women's history, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Prize for best article in African-American History, and the Anna Julia Cooper Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Black Women's Studies. Barkley Brown has held fellowships from the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Harvard University, and The American Philosophical Society. A past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians, Professor Barkley Brown currently serves on the Editorial Board of Women and U.S. Social Movements, 1600-2000. F or more information, please visit the following link www.barkleyb.com.
