Category: Black Panther Party

Winding Down the Civil Rights History Project: A Retrospective and Appreciation

February 27, 2020

Posted by: Guha Shankar

As African American History Month concludes in 2020, the AFC is proud to announce the culmination of the Civil Rights History Project (CRHP) with the online release of the last batch of the 145 video interviews recorded with veteran activists for the collection. All the interviews are available on the Civil Rights History Project page, at …

Posted in: AFC Events, African American History, African Americans, Archival Practice, Black Panther Party, Chicano/a, Civil Rights, Civil Rights History Project, Freedom Struggle, Freedom Stuggle, Freedom Summer 1964, Narratives, Oral History, Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March, SNCC, Story Map, teachers, Teaching, Women's History

Symposium Spotlights Interracial and Interfaith Coalitions

September 30, 2014

Posted by: Kate Stewart

On September 25th, the American Folklife Center and the Library of Congress’s Hispanic Division brought together eight scholars and activists for a day-long symposium titled Organizing Across the Boundaries: Strategies and Coalitions in the Struggle for Civil Rights and Social Justice. It was the last event for this fiscal year in our public programs series, …

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