» Education http://blackgermans.us Wed, 11 May 2011 12:42:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960 http://blackgermans.us/2011/03/16/bourgeois-radicals-the-naacp-and-the-struggle-for-colonial-liberation-1941-1960/ http://blackgermans.us/2011/03/16/bourgeois-radicals-the-naacp-and-the-struggle-for-colonial-liberation-1941-1960/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:52:02 +0000 rosepena http://blackgermans.us/new/?p=764 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Speaker: Carol Anderson (Emory University) – more about this lecture…
In 1993, shortly after his release from Robben Island, future President of South Africa Nelson Mandela addressed the NAACP annual convention. Mandela told the Association members, who “had contributed everything from $20 bills to $1,000 checks in a fund-raiser for the ANC”, that “‘We have come as a component part of the historic coalition of organizations, to which the NAACP and the ANC belong that has fought for the emancipation of black people everywhere.’”

Indeed, many of the strategies that brought about the collapse of apartheid – the isolation of South Africa in the UN, boycotts, divestment, and media attention focused on the brutality of white supremacy – were designed by a transnational team of activists in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

One of the first sustained skirmishes occurred when South Africa, swimming against the tide of colonial and racial history, attempted in 1946 to annex the adjacent international mandate of South West Africa (current-day Namibia). Pretoria was confident of UN approval for such an unprecedented move. Yet, into the breach -and into the United Nations – stepped an unlikely duo, the Reverend Michael Scott and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to stop the absorption of 350,000 Africans into a white supremacist state.

This seemingly odd couple, a maverick, communist-leaning Anglican minister and a staid, staunchly anti-communist bureaucratic organization, launched a skillful assault in the UN by linking the destructiveness of colonialism with white supremacist domestic rule. Within the span of five hard-fought years, the NAACP and Scott, wielding one human rights charter after the next, had carved out the political space in the UN for non-governmental organizations to debunk the myth of the white man’s burden and to challenge the legitimacy of apartheid.

In her talk, Professor Anderson will explore the intersection of domestic and international history, recapturing the vision and the actions of the black political center in the anti-colonial and global freedom movements.

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]]> http://blackgermans.us/2011/03/16/bourgeois-radicals-the-naacp-and-the-struggle-for-colonial-liberation-1941-1960/feed/ 0 Fellowship Opportunity: Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies http://blackgermans.us/2011/01/28/fellowship-heidelberg-university-and-the-heidelberg-center-for-american-studies/ http://blackgermans.us/2011/01/28/fellowship-heidelberg-university-and-the-heidelberg-center-for-american-studies/#comments Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:49:49 +0000 rosepena http://blackgermans.us/new/?p=710 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> James W.C. Pennington

James W.C. Pennington

PRESS RELEASE: “Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) are proud to announce the creation of a new fellowship honoring James W.C. Pennington, an African American churchman, abolitionist, and pacifist who holds a special place in the history of our university.

Born into slavery in Maryland, Pennington escaped bondage at the age of eighteen. He learned to read and write, and in 1834, became the first black man to attend classes at Yale. Four years later, Pennington was ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church. His devotion to black freedom and nonviolence made Pennington a cherished member of the international peace and abolitionist movements.

At the 1849 World Peace Congress in Paris, Pennington befriended the Heidelberg theologian Friedrich Carové. Impressed with Pennington’s courage and eloquence, Carové persuaded Heidelberg University to confer an honorary doctorate of divinity on the black minister. It was the first time that an African American received this greatest of all academic honors from a European university.

On the occasion of its six-hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary, Heidelberg University wishes to pay tribute to James W.C. Pennington’s extraordinary life, thereby strengthening the ties that bind Germany’s oldest university to the United States and the international academic community.”

For more information on the fellowship and the current call for donations, please see the attached file or visit: http://hca.uni-hd.de/md/hca/pennington.pdf

For the HCA itself, see: http://hca.uni-hd.de/index_en.html

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A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany

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The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany

Our research project explores the connection between the U.S. military presence abroad and the advancement of civil rights in the U.S. We investigate the role that African-American GIs played in carrying the civil rights movement to Germany, which was host to the largest contingent of U.S. troops deployed outside the U.S.

Between 1945 and the end of the Cold War, some 15-20 million American soldiers, families and civilian employees lived in Germany. Between 2-3 million of those Americans were African American. By giving voice to their experience and to that of the people who interacted with them, we will expand the story of the African-American civil rights movement beyond the boundaries of the U.S.

This digital archive has three main goals: First, it will gather and preserve materials on an important, but little known chapter of American and African-American history as well as transatlantic relations after the Second World War. Second, it will make these materials available world wide and free of charge to scholars and teachers in the humanities. Third, it will foster the growth of a community of scholars, teachers, and students who are engaged in teaching and learning about the African-American civil rights movement and its reverberations outside the U.S.

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