New Forms of Activism - 1:30-3:00 pm

Andy Achenbaum, R. Drew Smith, Larycia Hawkins, Katie Otis

Thursday, May 10, 2007
9:30AM (EDT)

Event Details

Larycia Hawkins, University of Oklahoma
"Follow the Civil Rights Road: Black Capture Meets the Faith-Based and Community Initiative"

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Mentor: R. Drew Smith, Morehouse College Scholar-in-Residence

Katie Otis, University of North Carolina
"'Kindly Give this Letter Your Personal Attention': Reexamining the Senior Power Movement Through Floridian Bifocals: Retirees' Mid-Twentieth-Century Correspondence with Congressman Claude Pepper and Senator George Smathers"

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Mentor: Andy Achenbaum, University of Houston Professor of History

Moderated by: Claudrena Harold, University of Virginia Professor of History