1970s Black Feminism at the OAH 2016

It is going to be a fabulous OAH for those of us who work on 1970s black feminist thinkers.  This is my quick run down

Friday, April 8, 12:20 pm – 1:50 pm Women in the Historical Profession Luncheon | Cost: $50 | #oah16_L3 Sponsored by the OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession; Presenter: Rhonda Y. Williams, Case Western Reserve University

Rhonda Y. Williams, founder and director of the Social Justice Institute at CWRU; the founder and director of CWRU’s postdoctoral fellowship in African American studies; and the author of two books: Concrete Demands: The Search for Black Power in the 20th Century (2015) and the award-winning The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles against Urban Inequality (2004). Dr. Rhonda has worked, as an educator and scholar-activist, to broker understanding of issues regarding marginalization, inequalities, and activism. She writes, “It is my belief that the practice of history should be part of a broader liberation project—one that arms students and scholars with the necessary analytical tools and information to combat social, cultural, and political myths and to address historical and contemporary issues.”

Representations: African American Women’s Leadership, Personal and Political Endorsed by the OAH Committee on the Status of African American, Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) Historians and ALANA Histories and the OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession #oah16_151
Chair and Commentator: Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University
“Hooray for Women, But I’m Not a Feminist!” Constance Baker Motley and the Double Bind of Women’s Leadership, 1945–1970 Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Harvard University Florynce “Flo” Kennedy and Black Feminist Leadership in the Reproductive Rights Battle, 1969–1971 Sherie Randolph, University of Michigan

“We Have a Chance to Pioneer”: Leadership and Race, Feminism and Law in the Transformation of the American Family, 1965–1980 Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania

Collaborative Action, Conflicting Visions: New Histories of Black-Latina/o Activism and Internationalism in the Mid- and Late Twentieth Century United States Endorsed by the OAH Committee on the Status of African American, Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) Historians and ALANA Histories #oah16_152

 “Is SNCC Prepared for This?”: Visions of Black/Brown Unity in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Cecilia Márquez, University of Virginia

Remembering Julian Bond #oah16_127

Chair: Emilye Crosby, State University of New York at Geneseo

Panelists:

• Jeanne Theoharis, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

• Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ohio State University

• Timothy Lovelace, Indiana University Maurer School of Law

• Taylor Branch, Author

• Judy Richardson, SNCC Staff (1963–1966), Documentary Filmmaker

Round Table: New Directions in Black Women’s Intellectual History #oah16_136 Chairs: Martha Jones, University of Michigan; Mia Bay, Rutgers University Panelists: • Brittney Cooper, Rutgers University • Jasmine Cobb, Duke University • Brandi Brimmer, Morgan State University • Brandi Hughes, University of Michigan

Feminisms and Leadership in the 1960s and ’70s Endorsed by the OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession #oah16_217 This panel will feature a discussion of the various approaches to organization and leadership in the Women's, Latina and Black feminism and the Welfare Rights movement. As these groups worked to claim the value of their lives and to challenge patriarchal practices, institutions and culture, they developed forms of organizing that emphasized equality and collaboration. We will discuss the contributions of these groups to social movement building and the problems they encountered as they experimented with new forms of leadership and organization

Chair: Amy Kesselman, State University of New York at New Paltz Panelists:

• Amy Kesselman, State University of New York at New Paltz

• Duchess Harris, Macalester College

• Denise Olilver-Velez, State University of New York at New Paltz

• Premilla Nadasen, Barnard College

On Leadership: American Women in Political Life Solicited by the OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession #oah16_253 Chair: Susan Goodier, State University of New York at Oneonta Panelists:

• Anastasia Curwood, University of Kentucky

• Julie Gallagher, Penn State University, Brandywine

• Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, University of California, Irvine

• Leandra Zarnow, University of Houston