Join us for a lunchtime presentation by Liz Lundeen, a PhD candidate in History at UNC-Chapel Hill and former McColl Fellow at CSAS. Liz’s presentation is titled “‘One A. Philip Randolph is Worth A Thousand James E. Shepards’: Understanding Moderate Black Politics in the Wartime South.”
World War II is generally regarded as a pivotal moment in African American History, marked by the “Double V” Campaign and the March on Washington Movement. This talk asks how the exigencies of wartime influenced moderate black leaders in the South to adjust their tactics in the struggle to secure equal rights and to confront racial discrimination. Focusing on the founder and long-time president of North Carolina College for Negroes (today’s North Carolina Central University), Liz Lundeen will examine the wartime politics of black institutional leaders as a means of understanding their contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.