Week 3

Black Left and the Cold War

Readings:

Claudia Jones_ An End to the Neglect of the Problems of Negro Women (74-86)Dayo Gore_From Communist Politics to Black Power:  The Visionary Politics and Transnational Solidarities of Victoria ‘Vicki’ Ama Garvin” and Gerald Horne and Margaret Stevens_Shirley Graham DuBois Portrait of the Black Woman Artist as a Revolutionary”

Jan 31

Readings:

Belinda Robnett_African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement,  1954-1965: Gender, Leadership, and Micromobilization” and Charles Payne “Ella Baker and Models of Social Change