124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Forgotten Chapters of the Black Freedom Struggle, 1941–60

Forgotten Chapters of the Black Freedom Struggle, 1941–60

AHA Session 151

Saturday, January 9, 2010: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM

Edward B (Hyatt)

Chair:

George White Jr., York College, City University of New York

Papers:

Fighting against Jim Crow Hiring: Black Activism for Employment in New York's War Industries, 1940–45
Carla J. DuBose, Graduate Center, City University of New York

"To Refuse to Fight as Slaves": Civil Disobedience against Military Segregation in Early Cold War America
Christine Knauer, University of Tuebingen

Seaing Red: McCarthyism, the Atlantic, and Anticolonialism in the Early Civil Rights Movement, 1945–60
John J. Munro, University of California, Santa Barbara

Comment:

Toure F. Reed, Illinois State University

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