Date: Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009 Time: 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. (EST)

How was African American community constructed during this period? Under what circumstances was it created? How did evolving concepts of community affect and reflect notions of African American identity?

LEADER:

Stephanie Shaw Professor of History Ohio State University National Humanities Center Fellow

• Assigned Readings

  Most of these texts come from the National Humanities Center's online toolbox
  The Making of African American Identity: Vol. III, 1917–1968. Please read the texts
  and the accompanying notes.

  1. Norman Rockwell, The Problem We All Live With, oil on canvas, 1964
     
     • Note
     • Image
  2. Letters from Negro migrants (approximately 8 pages)
     
     • Note
     • Newbern, AL; 4/17/17
     • Ft. Gaines, GA; Oct. 9, 1916 and Houston, TX; 2/25/17
     • Granville, MI; May 16, 1917
     • Mobile, AL; Jan. 8, 1917
     • New Orleans, LA; May 21, 1917 and May 20, 1917
     • Dauphne, AL; 4/20/17
     • Macon, GA; May 27, 1917
     • "Dear Partner," Chicago
     • Chicago, 11/13/17
     • Pittsburgh, May 11, 1917
     • Cleveland, August 28, 1917
     • Philadelphia, October 7, 1917
     For background on the Great Migration, see James Grossman, "Chicago and the Great Migration." (This is an optional reading and will not be discussed in the seminar.)
  3. Negroes Petition the General Assembly (1 page)
     
     • Note
     • Text (PDF)
  4. Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It (16 pages)
     
     • Note
     • Text (PDF)
  5. A.I. and Samuel Dixie, Interview (3 pages)
     
     • Note
     • Text (PDF)
  6. Augusta Savage, Lift Every Voice and Sing (The Harp), plaster sculpture
     
     • Note
     • Image (PDF)
  7. Malcolm X, "Not Just an American Problem, But a World Problem" (16 pages)
     
     • Note
     • Text (PDF)
• Seminar Presentation (PowerPoint, 5.41 MB)
• Seminar Evaluation (Available on day of seminar.)
• Forum