(See also Women Movement Veterans, A call for papers.)
If you asked the average person on the street to name three women who worked in the civil rights movement, they would probably be able to name Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King before they got stuck. Popular culture-movies, documentaries and books have regailed the public with stories of Martin Luther King and others who put their lives on the line but there is the perception that these activists seem to be mostly men. Women were at the core of the civil rights movement, and the 5th Annual Women's History Conference at Sarah Lawrence College will celebrate Women's History month by honoring the unsung heroes of the modern Civil Rights movement.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
FRIDAY, MARCH 7 7:00pm
WELCOME:
KEYNOTE LECTURE:
PERFORMANCE:
SATURDAY, MARCH 8
8:00-9:00 am
REGISTRATION
9:00-10:15 am
OPENING REMARKS:
PLENARY SESSION:
SESSION 1: 10:30-12:00 pm
Charles McKinney, Duke University: "We had to fight for what we needed': African American Women and working class organizing in Wilson North Carolina, 1967-1974"
Millicent Ellison Brown, Ph.d North Carolina A&T State University: "Black Women on Strike: We Will Overcome, We Think," Activism Among Low Income Women in Charleston, South Carolina, 1945-1969
Carolyn E. Sattin, Duke University: "Women in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: A New Perspective"
LaShawn D. Harris, United States Department of State: "Female Shock Troops: Interpersonal Relationships between Black and White Women in SNCC 1960-1963"
Sandra Adickes - Winona State University
Hellen O'Neal-McCray - Wilberforce University: "SNCC Liberated Us: Teaching Freedom School as a Life Changing Experience"
Peter B. Levy, York College: "Gloria Richardson and the Civil Rights Movement"
Joseph R. Fitzgerald, Temple University: "Consequences of Re- Inscription: Deconstructing Richardson Stories"
Debra L. Schultz, Ph.D., "Open Society Institute Network Women's Program"
Dottie Zellner, CUNY School of Law
Faith Holsaert, College of Southern Maryland: "Crossing Boundaries: Jewish Women in the Southern Civil Rights Movement"
Sheila Shiki Y Michaels, Columbia University and University of Southern Mississippi: "Unacknowledged Leaders: In the Forefront and Ignored, or Behind the Scenes and Mistrusted"
Margaret Peggy Rozga, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha: "The Movement Moves North Bullock County, Alabama to Milwaukee, Wisconsin: A Volunteer's Story"
Rev. Dr. Barbara R. I. Isaacs, Loyola University of Chicago: "The role of Dr. Willa B. Player of Bennett College (1955-1966) in Greensboro Struggles"
Sarah Hardin, University of Kentucky: "Hidden Strength: Women and the Struggle for Open Housing in Louisville, Kentucky"
Arlene E. Edwards, PhD, University of the District of the Columbia: "Triangulation of Voice: The Baker Principles as Foundational Themes in the Contemporary Community Work Of Black Women and the Informed Practice of Community Psychology"
Dr Helen Laville, University of Birmingham: "Women are the Shock Absorbers": The Role of Women's Community Association in the Implementation of Brown"
LUNCH 12:15-1:00pm:
SESSION 2: 1:15-3:00 pm
Stephen M. Ward, University of Michigan: "Frances Beal, The Third World Women's Alliance, and Radical Black Feminism During the Black Power Movement
Cedric Kwesi Johnson, Hobart and William Smith Colleges: "Black Power and Black Women's Activism"
Jiton Sharmayne Davidson, Howard University: "Spiritual Sidekicks, Divine Daggers and Mama's Mojo: Magical Womanism and Cultural Power in the Fiction of Black Women in America Since the Womanist (or Black feminist) Movement of the 1970's"
Patt Derian, Mississippi Civil Rights leader and WIMS activist.
Erica Poff, Innovation Partnership: "A Ministry of Presence: Women/Wednesdays in Mississippi"
Kristin M. Anderson-Bricker, Loras College
Anna Holden: Living CORE the Way
Sheila Shiki Y Michaels, Columbia University and University of Southern Mississippi: "Most People Don't Understand What the Movement Was"
Gail K. Beil with Ruthe Farmer Swinson, Independent Researcher
Lula Peterson Farmer: Pioneer With CORE
Julie A. Gallagher, University of Massachusetts: "African American Women's Activism in New York City, 1945-1960"
Carol Cornwell, Heart Share Human Services: "Beyond Berkeley: Women in the Civil Rights Movement in Berkeley and Oakland, California"
Perzavia Praylow, Michigan State University: "Black and White Women at Duke, 1957-1972: Protest, Social Change and the Reconstruction of Race, Class and Gender"
Judy Richardson, Northern Light Productions
Martha Prescod Norman, University of Toledo
Dorothy Zellner, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law
Rosetta E. Ross, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities: "Religion and Grassroots Leadership in South Carolina: The Case of Victoria Way DeLee"
Tara Y. White, American Association for State and Local History: "Praying and Organizing: Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement In Birmingham, Alabama"
Karen Jackson-Weaver, Columbia University: "An Invisible Force Within Our Midst: The Significance of Black Women's Leadership During the Civil Rights Movement"
SESSION 3: 3:15-5:00 pm
Tiyi M. Morris, DePauw University: "Oughta Be A Woman": Black Mississippi Women and Political Activism in the 1960s
Frances Jones-Sneed, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts: "African Americans Women and their Memories of the Sixties Movement: The Case of Mississippi
Rhondalyn K. Peairs, University of Mississippi and Amistad Research Center-Tulane University: "Naomis in this Land: Portraits of Black Women Landowners in Mississippi During the Civil Rights Movement"
Jennifer Nelson, Sarah Isom Center for Women-The University of Mississippi University: "Black Women's Public Healthcare and the Civil Rights Movement"
Komozi Woodard, Sarah Lawrence College: "Black Women's United Front"
Brian Purnell, New York University: "Women of Brooklyn CORE"
Duchess Harris, Macalester College: "Doubting the Democrats: Black Feminist Politics, from Kennedy to Clinton-remembering Combahee"
Jeanne Frances Theoharis, Brooklyn College of CUNY: "Every Means at Our Disposal": Ruth Batson and the Fight for Equity in Boston's Public Schools, 1945-1980
John Lewis Adams, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "In no position to compromise": Daisy Bates, Uncompromising Female Leadership, and Civil Rights in Little Rock"
Cynthia Stokes Brown, Professor Emerita Dominican University of California: "Two White Allies: Virginia Foster Durr and Anne Braden"
Alma Jean Billingslea Brown, Spelman College: "Negotiating Identity: Septima Clark, Citizenship Education, and the Civil Rights Movement."
W.S. Tkweme, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: "Black is the Color:" The Emancipation Advocacy of Nina Simone
Tracie Morris, Sarah Lawrence College: "Lyrics and Poems of women in the Civil Rights/Black Power Era"
Paul T. Murray, Siena College: "We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest" Using Freedom Songs To Teach About the Civil Rights Movement"
Evelyn M. Simien, University of Connecticut: "Teaching Black Insurgency & Civil Rights: Inspiring Student Activism, Promoting Social Justice"
Maggie Nolan Donovan, Wheelock College
Bob Zellner, Southampton College, LIU: "That's not fair!" Learning the Lessons Of The Civil Rights Movement With Young Children"
Lynn Pifer, Mansfield University: "The Personal is Pedagogical: Teaching Women's Civil Rights Autobiographies"
Pam Brooks, Oberlin College: "But once they are organized, you can never stop them': 1950s Black Women in Montgomery and Johannesburg Defy Men and the State"
Bahati Kuumba, Spelman College
Benita Roth, Binghampton University (SUNY): "Transnational Imagery and the Use of History in Feminism: A Comparative Outlook"
Abigail Sara Lewis, Rutgers University: "The Creation of a "Woman- Centered Space in the Civil Rights Movement: The Work of the Young Women's Christian Association
EVENING PROGRAM
RECEPTION AND BOOK SALE 5:00pm
Starring: Lacresha Berry as Rosa Parks and Angela Williams as Mary Ellen Pleasant
Directed by, Erika Bradshaw of the Actors Theater of Louisville
Hotel Information:
Holiday Inn Yonkers 125 Tuckahoe Rd, Yonkers, NY 10710, (914) 476-3800. (Mention that you would like to have the Sarah Lawrence College discount-at Holiday in only.
Royal Regency Hotel, 165 Tuckahoe Rd, Yonkers, NY 10710, (914) 476-6200
Tuckahoe Motor Inn, 307 Tuckahoe Road, (914) 793-6300
The Villa (Bed and Breakfast), 90 Rockledge Road, Bronxville, NY 10708, (800) 457 5595, (914) 337-5595
There will be an hourly shuttle to and from the campus on Friday night and all day Saturday that will make stops at all four locations.
For directions by car or train call the Office of College Events at 914- 395-2411 or go to the Sarah Lawrence website: www.slc.edu/about.
For more information, email Tara James at Email: tjames@slc.edu or call 914- 395-2405
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