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SUMMARY:FreedomCon 2021 -  Building Community through Free Black Migration before the Civil War
DESCRIPTION:The scholarship on the Underground Railroad movement and the Great Migration is vast but little attention has been paid to the voluntary migratory patterns of free black Americans before the Civil War. Dr. Jennifer Thompson Burns will shine light on the importance of studying the antebellum migratory patterns of free Black Americans in the tri-city area of New York State and use this data to explain the benefits this migration had on black community development past and present.\n  \n \nJennifer Burns\, PhD\, is a professor of history in the Africana Studies Department at The State University of New York at Albany. Her concentration is in American history and with the story of Black Citizens of Troy\, New York and their work in abolition prior to the American Civil War. Professor Burns is a commentator on WAMC’s Round Table Program\, is a board member of Underground Railroad Education Center and The Hart Cluett Museum\, and is active in curriculum development and community education. She has received her Masters and Doctoral degrees from the State University of New York at Albany. Dr. Burns has presented at numerous community events and conference\, received numerous awards\, and has contributed to Civil War Slave Database in Virginia (2011-2012)\, and Slavery By Another Name (2012). \n Today’s event is made possible\, in part\, by an Action Grant from Humanities New York. Humanities New York encourages critical thinking and cultural understanding in the public arena through grants\, programs\, networking and advocacy. Visit humanitiesny.org to learn more.
URL:https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/event/libertycon-2021-building-community-through-free-black-migration-before-the-civil-war/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:FreedomCon2021
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SUMMARY:FreedomCon 2021 - Destined to Engage and Collaborate: Examining the Social/Political Dynamics of Native Americans and African Americans in the United States
DESCRIPTION:Through anecdotal historical and contemporary narratives\, this seminar presents compelling evidence that Native Americans and African Americans have provided unique intertwining social\, political and cultural contributions to the development of our United States society. This symbiotic relationship contributed to establishing collaborative agency between these similarly oppressed people in their efforts to gain equal rights and equal status in a world strongly opposed to such gains.\n  \n \nDarryl Omar Freeman\, Lecturer\, is a University Faculty Senator and Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Ethnic Studies at California State University\, Sacramento. He is an accomplished researcher\, writer\, speaker\, and social/cultural critic. His scholastic work spans many different social and political arenas – from public policy reform and racial/cultural representation in the United States to community of color identity issues\, critical ethnic coalition movement building\, and social political issues of the African Diaspora. He is presently part of the leadership committee coordinating the “Ethnic Studies Now” effort to institute a requirement in the State of California that all high school students take an Introduction to Ethnic Studies course as a graduation requirement. There is presently a pilot program in five Sacramento Unified School District high schools \nAs an engaged community activist Freeman has served as a Board Member\, Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution\, Black Lives Matter moderator\, co-organizer of the “Red Hand Day” Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers\, African American Graduation Celebration Steering Committee member\, a Cooper-Woodson College Peer Mentor and has been a Loaves and Fishes Homeless Inc. service volunteer for over 20 years. \nProfessor Freeman has been a guest speaker and chaired many academic conference panels and is a member of the following academic organizations; The American Anthropological Association\, The American Political Science Association\, National Association of Ethnic Studies\, National Conference of Black Political Scientists\, National Council for Black Studies\, and the Southwestern Social Sciences Association. He has also been Associate Editor for the Africana Journal\, San Francisco State University and Assistant Editor of the Sacramento Hmong Journal\, Sacramento. Publications include “Mixed-Race Individuals: A Solution for Race Relations in America” in Introduction to Ethnic Studies (Dale Allender and Gregory Ye Mark\, eds.\, Kendall Hunt Publishing 2016). \n  \n Today’s event is made possible\, in part\, by an Action Grant from Humanities New York. Humanities New York encourages critical thinking and cultural understanding in the public arena through grants\, programs\, networking and advocacy. Visit humanitiesny.org to learn more.
URL:https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/event/libertycon-2021-destined-to-engage-and-collaborate-examining-the-social-political-dynamics-of-native-americans-and-african-americans-in-the-united-states/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:FreedomCon2021
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SUMMARY:FreedomCon 2021 - "When you lift from the bottom\, everybody rises": The moral and material necessity of ending poverty
DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 has accelerated the decades-long trend of wealth accumulating at the top\, while more and more Americans fall into poverty. The time is now to enact a bold policy agenda that doesn’t just alleviate poverty\, but ends it. Rev. McNeill will discuss the impact of poverty in the Capital Region and New York State and how efforts like the Poor People’s Campaign are organizing in response.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 \nRev. E. West McNeill\, Executive Director of Labor-Religion Coalition\, is originally from Fairport\, NY. West joined Labor-Religion Coalition in 2014 as Lead Organizer. West is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. They hold an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary in New York City\, where they were a Fellow with the Kairos Center\, a national network of grassroots and religious leaders organizing to end poverty. Prior to joining LRC\, West was pastor of Parkland United Methodist Church and associate pastor of First United Methodist Church in Tacoma\, WA. West has also worked with United Methodist Kairos Response\, a denominational network advocating for justice and human rights in Israel/Palestine. They have a B.A. in journalism from Ithaca College. \nhttps://laborreligion.org/\n  \nRev. Phil Grigsby\, originally scheduled to present on this date\, is unable to do so. Rev. McNeill has generously offered to step in to become the scheduled presenter.\n  \n Today’s event is made possible\, in part\, by an Action Grant from Humanities New York. Humanities New York  encourages critical thinking and cultural understanding in the public arena through grants\, programs\, networking and advocacy. Visit humanitiesny.org to learn more.
URL:https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/event/libertycon-2021-food-justice-hunger-child-poverty-farming-while-black/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:FreedomCon2021
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SUMMARY:LibertyCon 2021 -- Dr. Dorothy L. Brown and the Politics of Adoption and Abortion\, 1950 to 1968
DESCRIPTION:In 1956\, Dr. Dorothy L. Brown became the first single woman in Tennessee to legally adopt a child. This accomplishment was one of many firsts that Dr. Brown achieved in her storied life. Once a ward of the Troy Orphan Asylum in Troy\, NY\, Brown was a leader in medicine and politics who authored a failed abortion law during her time as the first African-American Representative in the Tennessee General Assembly. This presentation explores the context in which Dr. Brown lived and worked\, the ways that her early life and work informed her involvement in adoption and abortion reform efforts in the decades before Roe v. Wade\, and the relevance of her work for us today.\n  \n \nDr. Kori A. Graves\, PhD\, is an Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Albany. A graduate of the Program in Gender and Women’s History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, Dr. Graves’ research evaluates the significance of political and popular representations of gender\, race\, nation\, and family. Her book\, A War Born Family: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War tells the story of the first African Americans who adopted Korean children\, and the ways their efforts revealed the contested nature of adoptive family formation across racial and national lines in the Cold War era. Dr. Graves is also a dedicated instructor. She has won awards for teaching excellence for her courses that explore gender and women’s history\, the history of marriage and family\, and histories of the body\, beauty and identity politics in the U.S.
URL:https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/event/dr-dorothy-l-brown-and-the-politics-of-adoption-and-abortion-1950-to-1968/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:FreedomCon2021
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SUMMARY:FreedomCon 2021 - The New York Kidnapping Club: Wall Street\, Slavery and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
DESCRIPTION:The Kidnapping Club is a powerful and resonant account of the ties between slavery and capitalism\, corrupt roots of policing in America\, and the unflagging strength of Black activism.\nDr. Wells’ gripping narrative tells the story of the powerful men who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well in New York City long after slavery had been outlawed in the North. The Kidnapping Club was a network of judges\, lawyers\, police officers and bankers who sanctioned the kidnapping of free Black men\, women and children in New York City who were then sold into markets in the southern states\, South America\, and the Caribbean for vast sums of wealth.\n  \n \nJonathan Daniel Wells\, PhD\, is a prize-winning historian whose most recent book\, The Kidnapping Club\, tells of the intersections among Wall Street\, slavery\, and resistance to the illicit slave trade in New York City just before the Civil War. Dr. Wells is professor of history in the Departments of Afro-American and African Studies\, History\, and Director\, Residential College at the University of Michigan. \nBook Information and Reviews can be found at: \nhttps://www.jonathandanielwells.com/the-new-york-kidnapping-club \nhttps://bookpage.com/reviews/25668-jonathan-daniel-wells-kidnapping-club-nonfiction#.YAYZrHZKiM8 \nhttps://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jonathan-daniel-wells/the-kidnapping-club/?page=2 \nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/books/review-kidnapping-club-jonathan-daniel-wells.html
URL:https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/event/the-new-york-kidnapping-club-wall-street-slavery-and-resistance-on-the-eve-of-the-civil-war/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:FreedomCon2021
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