*Discussions will be based upon a pre-circulated paper. If you plan to attend the talk and would like a copy of the paper, please email Elsa Barkley Brown (barkleyb@umd.edu).

February 13, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m., 2120 Francis Scott Key Hall
(Light refreshments available at 6:15)
"Radical Visions: The Depression Years"

Patricia Sullivan,University of South Carolina

Commentator: Daryle Scott , Howard University

Patricia Sullivan is Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. Her publications include Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era ; Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years ; Civil Rights in the United States , a two-volume encyclopedia coedited with Waldo E. Martin, Jr.; and New Directions in Civil Rights Studies , coedited with Armstead L. Robinson.
Since 1997, Patricia Sullivan and Waldo Martin have directed a series of NEH Summer Institutes for teachers at Harvard University 's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute on the history of the Civil Rights Movement. They also serve as coeditors of the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture, University of North Carolina Press .

Sullivan is currently completing a history of the NAACP entitled American Dream: The NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights ; it will be published by the New Press in 2009.

Daryl Scott is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Howard University . He specializes in modern United States history. His book, Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996 , won the 1998 James A. Rawley Prize for the best work in race relations He is also the author of numerous journal articles including “Postwar Pluralism: Brown v. Board of Education and the Origins of Multiculturalism,” Journal of American History (2004). Dr. Scott's current book projects are After Cotton: African Americans in Blackbelt Georgia, 1945–1970 and The Lost World of White Nationalism: White Self-Rule in the American South, 1865–1970 . Professor Scott is a member of the Executive Council of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).

 

March 6 , 6:30 - 8:00 p.m., 2110 Taliaferro Hall
(Light refreshments available at 6:15)
"'Young Strangers': Race, Dependence, and Childhood in U.S. Popular Responses to Nineteenth Century Slave Trade Suppression"*

Sharla Fett, Occidental College

Sharla Fett is Assistant Professor of History at Occidental College. Her first book, Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations received numerous awards including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, the Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award from the Southern Historical Association, and the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize and the Willie Lee Rose Prize from the Southern Association of Women Historians.