Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "African American women in industry" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1939 - 1945. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-842c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
The following lecturers specialize in African American history.
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Nan Elizabeth Woodruff
The New Negro in the American Congo: The Elaine, Arkansas, Racial Massacre, 1919
This lecture discusses the Elaine, Arkansas Massacre that occurred in 1919. It describes the ways that black people had been politicized during World War I, focusing on their organized activities to claim their citizenship rights. The Elaine Massacre represented the efforts of the local, state, and...(Read More)
Mia Bay
Traveling Black, Buying Black: Race on the Road during the Jim Crow Era
Based on her book Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, Dr. Bay tells the history of the African American experience on segregated transportation from the antebellum era to the present day. Traveling Black explores what it was like to travel in Jim Crow cars, ride at the back of the bus,...(Read More)
Spencer Crew
African American Migration: The Great Migration, 1915-1940
The presentation chronicles the movement of African Americans from the South to the North during and after WWI. It looks at the factors which propelled them to leave the south like the boll weevil, segregation laws and economic discrimination as well as the factors drawing them north such as new...(Read More)
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