No Images? Click here CSSJ Monthly Newsletter Events Brown Family Weekend Events with the CSSJ Unfinished Business: The Long Civil Rights Movement Exhibition and Reception The Civil Rights Movement (The Southern Freedom Movement) was a catalyst for social change in America disrupting the legal system of Jim Crow and racial segregation. It was composed of ordinary Black women, men and children, many of whom placed their lives on the line to fight the laws of racial segregation. In this exhibition we tell the story of the relationship between the Black organizing tradition and the movement. We trace the tradition from the moment of emancipation until the presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson. It is a story not often told, yet it is a necessary one for our times. Please join us Friday from 4:00-6:00 PM for a special gallery reception. Slavery & Legacy Walking Tour In the eighteenth century slavery permeated every aspect of social and economic life in Rhode Island. The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice’s Slavery and Legacy walking tour invites guest to learn about the history and legacy of slavery as it pertains to Brown University and the state of Rhode Island. Major stops on this hour-long walking tour includes the Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle, University Hall, the Slavery Memorial and the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice. The walking tour will begin at 10:00 AM at the Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle. Open House at the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice For centuries, the institution of slavery pervaded every aspect of life in America and its reverberations are still keenly felt today. We invite you to the Center’s 19th century house for a special reception starting at 11:00 AM to meet our faculty, staff and students. While you are at the Center you can learn about student opportunities at the CSSJ, view the exhibition on display in our gallery, Herstory, a stunning glass wall art piece, Rising to Freedom and a symbolic slave garden. Save the Date! November 16, 2018 Living Unfinished Business: the Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement, Memory, and Voting Rights Today is a day of conversations connected to the exhibition, Unfinished Business: The Long Civil Rights Movement curated by the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice. Through a series of panels, Living Unfinished Business will feature veterans of the Movement, photographers, community activists, lawyers and scholars to discuss the distinctive legacies of the Movement, the ways in which it is remembered, historicized, and the present day threats to voting rights. Fighting Human Trafficking and Labor Exploitation on US Soil: Chinese Construction Workers in Saipan Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 4pm
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 This paper analyzes a rather rare type of newspaper in imperial Brazil—a self-described “Black” periodical—through the lens of intellectual history. The talk with focus on the "Gallery" that appeared in O Homem, a newspaper in Recife, as a way to think about how such interventions that were about the politics of race and abolition also need to be considered as constitutive of a broader field of trans-Atlantic literary exchange; that the histories of Brazilian slavery and blackness indeed compel us to rethink the terms and forms through which the "illustrious men" genre evolved in the Atlantic world. Co-sponsored by Africana Studies and the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Beyond the Center Tales from Within: A Dialogue with Advocates and Recipients of Prison Education Monday, October 15, 2018, 5:00-7:00pm The Petey Greene Program at Brown University presents: Tales from Within: A Dialogue with Advocates and Recipients of Prison Education. Join us for a discussion on the state of education within the American prison system. Food will be served. 50 Years Since '68: The Global and the Local November 1 & 2, 2018 A symposium on the international dimensions of 1968 in collaboration with the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and with generous support from the Office of the President, Brown University. |