Sunday, January 5, 11:00–1:00 p.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

159. African Americans and the Meanings of Freedom during the Early Cold War

Palmer House, Parlor F

Chair: Brenda Gayle Plummer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Papers: "A beacon to oppressed peoples everywhere": National Freedom Day and the Rhetoric of Freedom in the 1940s
Mitch Kachun, Western Michigan University

Postwar Black Conservatism and McCarthyism: George S. Schuyler and the Anti-Communist Movement, 1945–54
Oscar R. Williams, State University of New York at Albany

Comment: John Fousek, Rutgers University at Newark
Brenda Gayle Plummer

   

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