A BREATH OF FREEDOM:
THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE, AFRICAN AMERICAN GIs, AND GERMANY

By Maria Höhn and Martin Klimke

“Maria Höhn’s and Martin Klimke’s carefully researched and lucid Breath of Freedom stands for a paradigm shift in our reading of the civil rights movement and deserves to become a classic in the field; not only does it invite the movement’s relocation in a transnational context; it also succeeds in illustrating the innovative potential of this global perspective by its in-depth case study of the specific intersectionality of post World War II Germany and African America.”

Maria Diedrich, University of Münster
Founder and former president of the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR)
Author of Love Across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass

This moving and beautifully illustrated book, developed from an award-winning research project, examines the experience of African-American GIs in Germany since 1945 and the unique insights they provide into the civil rights struggle at home and abroad. Because of the American military occupation after World War II, America’s unresolved civil rights agenda was exposed to world-wide scrutiny as never before. America’s ambitious efforts to democratize German society after the defeat of Nazism also meant that West Germany was exposed to American ideas of freedom and democracy to a much larger degree than many other countries. READ MORE…

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ISD BUNDESTREFFEN

Start Time:	Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 2:35pm
End Time:	Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 11:35am
Location:	in Helmarshausen Germany

When Federal ISD meeting ISD- meets every year, the Black community in Germany.

In November 1985 called for the first time Black women and men nationwide at a meeting in Wiesbaden, step out to get out of that time experienced isolation in a white society. Many followed this call. That was the impetus for a nation (at the time the time being, the old West Germany) Movement of black people in Germany. A novelty in Germany under the Nazis. Much has changed since those early days. From a manageable number of contacts was a complex network. Black people work on topics with each other to create discussion forums, create knowledge, make their private and public space. There will be workshops, lectures, discussions, exchanges, information stalls, children’s program and lots of room to Selbstgestalten. In the evening there’s pure culture, e.g. Films, performance / reading, DJ and live music. And of course you can with ragga, soul, Soukouss, hip hop and everything else is fun to dance floor. Issues at the federal meetings are black history, black people in education and employment, blacks networks, Black Identities in Germany, strengthening of children and young people, self in everyday life, and much more …

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Bündnis von zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen begrüßt Umbenennung des
Gröbenufers in May-Ayim-Ufer in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
“Weitere Straßenumbenennungen nötig ”

Alliance of civil rights organizations welcomes the renaming of Berlin-Kreuzberg’s
Gröbenufer to May-Ayim-Ufer.
“Further street renamings will be necessary”

FULL STORY ON: Der Braune Mob

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