Sunday, January 11, 2004

8:30–10:30 a.m.

128.“As . . . Negroes awake to the need for a unity of action on vital economic problems”: Redefining the Struggle for African American Citizenship during the 1930s and 1940s
Omni Shoreham, Suite 273

Chair: Martha Biondi, Northwestern University
Papers:

“The Harris Wing” and the Contours of African American Social Thought and Action, 1919–54
Eben Miller, Brandeis University

Race, Official Culture, and Radicalism: Black Baltimore Charts a Response to the New Deal, 1933–45
Prudence Denise Cumberbatch, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

A Radical Past for a Progressive Future: Black Culture and the National Negro Congress
Erik S. Gellman, Northwestern University


Comment: Beth Tompkins Bates, Wayne State University