Live Event: 'The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in Global Context,' March 8
February 17, 2023
Contact: Office of Advancement and External Relations
Phone: 410.837.5739
The Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s are best remembered today for challenging racism in the United States, but their efforts for freedom and equality around the world deserve greater recognition. On Wednesday, March 8, beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the H. Mebane Turner Learning Commons Town Hall, 1415 Maryland Ave., The University of Baltimore's History Program and the UBalt History Club will host an in-person discussion on the global dimensions of the Black freedom struggle with three veterans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): Courtland Cox, Jennifer Lawson, and Daphne Muse. The event is free and open to the public; attendance details are listed below.
The event will include a discussion about the international work of the civil rights movement and Black Power movement, as participants demonstrated against the U.S. war in Vietnam, fought for the independence of African nations, and worked towards the end of apartheid in South Africa.
Cox, Lawson, and Muse have been key participants in the civil rights and Black Power struggles from the 1960s to today. As veterans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, they were among the "shock troops" of the movement, who went into the most challenging and most dangerous areas of the Deep South when others would not.
"Throughout their careers, they have personally worked with a range of leading historical figures including John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Angela Davis, Rosa Parks, Bayard Rustin, and Martin Luther King, Jr.," assistant professor of history Joshua Clark Davis says. "They were also among the founders of Drum and Spear Bookstore in Washington, D.C., the leading Black-owned bookstore in the country in the late 1960s and early '70s. To this day, organizers in the Movement for Black Lives, Dream Defenders, Black Youth Project 100, and a variety of social justice groups of the 21st century work directly with Cox, Lawson, and Muse, seeking guidance as they build on the foundation laid by SNCC and Drum and Spear decades earlier."
To attend this livestream event, go to this Zoom page.
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