This 8-week course runs from October 19 through December 14. May be of especial interest to North Carolina movement vets and their families.
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University Announces a Fall Course offering: Documenting the African American Freedom Struggle.
It has been over 40 years since the Greensboro sit-in protests ignited a national movement for civil rights, and the African- American freedom struggle emerged into the light of national awareness and debate. Today, activists from the 60s are increasingly realizing the importance of passing along their stories and lessons from the movement, as a generation of young people search for a usable past to guide their own struggles for justice.
What is your role today? Join us to learn how you can document a part of your own community's civil rights history using oral histories and primary source documents. As background, we will examine some of the strategies that historians and activists have used to document the Civil Rights Movement, including photographs, films, oral history interviews, newspaper accounts, public monuments, websites, and primary source documents. The course may be of particular interest to veterans of the freedom struggle and their families; those with a strong interest in the movement; and students conducting research on civil rights who want to learn of the range of primary sources available to them. The strategies we discuss have broad applicability to any documentary project, so students working outside the field are encouraged to enroll as well.
Instructor: Kerry Taylor works at the Southern Oral History Program at UNC-Chapel Hill and is coeditor of Symbol of the Movement, The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume IV (University of California Press, Berkeley 2000) (919) 962-0455. Email: kerryt@email.unc.edu.
For more information on the certificate program, or to register for courses, contact Duke Continuing Education by calling 919-684-6259 Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by visiting the Web at: www.learnmore.duke.edu/shortcourse/classsearch.asp
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