The Center for Documentary Studies Announces a Spring Course offering: Documenting the African American Freedom Struggle.

Over eight Saturdays from 11-1pm.
Course meets at the Hayti Heritage Center (Durham)

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 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 to document a part of your own community's civil rights history using oral histories and primary source documents. As background, we will examine strategies that scholars 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. The workshop format of the class makes it very useful for movement veterans working on memoirs and other documentary projects.

Instructors: Leigh Raiford, John Hope Franklin Fellow, Duke University and Kerry Taylor, Southern Oral History Program, UNC at Chapel Hill

(919) 962-0455 Email: kerryt@email.unc.edu.

For more information 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.

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