Syllabus

July 6: introduction

TUESDAY

10 -12: Faculty, Participants introductions; discussion of Institute schedule, goals

3-5: Library Resources at Harvard: meeting with Barbara Burg

Topic I: The New Deal and World War II (July 6-9) 

WEDNESDAY

10-12: Race, Citizenship and Democracy in the 1930s: Patricia Sullivan

Readings: Adam Fairclough, Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, Preface - pp xi-xxii

Patricia Sullivan, Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era, Introduction, chapters 1-3

2-4: Labor and Civil Rights, New Deal/ World War II: recent scholarship on black workers, organized labor, and civil rights: Kevin Boyle

Readings: Robert Korstad and Nelson Lichtenstein, "Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement, JAH 75 (1988): 786-811.

Bruce Nelson, "Organized Labor and the Struggle for Black Equality in Mobile During World War II," JAH 80 (1993): 952-88

Kevin Boyle, "There Are No Union sorrows the Union Can't Heal: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the United Automobile Workers, 1940-1960," Labor History 36 (1995) 

THURSDAY

10-12: World War II and the Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue

Panel discussion: Barbara Savage, Patricia Sullivan, Kevin Boyle

Readings: Barbara Savage, Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948, intro., chapters 1-3 Sullivan, Days of Hope, chapters 4-6

Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in

Postwar Detroit, chapters 1-3

George Lipsitz, Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s, chapter 3

2-4: Black Radio and Civil Rights Liberalism: Curriculum workshop with Barbara Savage

Readings: Barbara Savage, Broadcasting Freedom, chapters 4-6 

FRIDAY

9-11: Race, Culture and Politics during the New Deal Era: James Smethurst

Readings: James Edward Smethurst, The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946, introduction, chapter 1, 6

1-3: Southern Negro Youth Congress, 1938-1948

Readings: "Memories of the Southern Negro Youth Congress: Interview with

James and Esther Jackson" (copies to be provided)

Topic II: Post War America, 1946-1959 (July 12-16) 

MONDAY

Race and Cold War Politics

10-12: Overview: Boyle, Savage, Smethurst

Reading: Ellen Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes : McCarthyism in America, chapters 5, 8

George Lipsitz, Rainbow at Midnight : Labor and Culture in the 1940s, chapters 7-9

2-4: Anticommunism and Civil Rights Struggles in the South

Readings: Sullivan, Days of Hope, chapters 7-8, epilogue

Adam Fairclough, Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, Preface Ð pp. xi-xxii, chapter 6 

TUESDAY

10-12: Teaching about the Brown decision: curriculum workshop with Waldo Martin

Readings: Waldo E. Martin, Jr., ed., Brown v. Board: A Brief History with Documents

2-4: Screening of "Triumph and Tragedy: The Jim Crow Years, 1939-1954" 

WEDNESDAY

10-12: Local and State Studies of the Civil Rights Movement: Raymond Gavins,

Readings: August Meier & Elliott Rudwick, "The Origins of Nonviolent Direct Action in Afro-American Protest: A Note on Historical Discontinuities," in Along the Color Line: Explorations in the Black Experience, 307-404

2-4: Southern Liberalism and Civil Rights: Tony Badger

Readings: Numan V. Bartley, The New South, 1945-1980: The Story of the South's Modernization, 38-73

Tony Badger, "Fatalism not Gradualism: The Crisis of Southern Liberalism,1945-65" in Brian Ward and Tony Badger eds., The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, 67-95

Michael Klarman, "How Brown changed Race Relations: The Backlash Thesis," Journal of American History 81 (June 1994) 81-118 

THURSDAY

10-12: The Literature of the Civil Rights Movement: Deborah Mc Dowell

Readings: Flannery O'Connor, "Everything that Rises Must Converge"

2-4: Growing Up Black in the Segregated South: Discussion with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Deborah Mc Dowell

Readings: Deborah Mc Dowell, Leaving Pipe Shop

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Colored People 

FRIDAY

10-12: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People:

Ray Gavins, Tony Badger, Patricia Sullivan

Readings: August Meier and John Bracey, "The NAACP as a Reform Movement, 1909-1965," The Journal of Southern History, Feb. 1993, pp. 3-30

Raymond Gavins, "The NAACP in North Carolina in the Age of Segregation," in Armstead Robinson and Patricia Sullivan, New Directions in Civil Rights Studies

Adam Fairclough, Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, Chapters 3, 5, 7, 8

2-4: The CRM in Montgomery, Alabama: a discussion with Mrs. Johnnie Carr 

TOPIC 3: The 1960s (July19-23)

MONDAY

10-12: The Student Movement and Mass Protest

Readings: Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, ed., A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC

James Forman, The Making of Black Revolutionaries, selected chapters

2-4: Women and the CRM

Readings: Joanne Grant, Ella Baker: Freedom Bound

Greenberg, ed., A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC, pp. 127-151 

TUESDAY

10-12: Civil Rights and the Law: Randall Kennedy

Readings

2-4: Teaching about Martin Luther King, Jr.: panel discussion Tony Badger, Waldo Martin, Julian Bond

Adam Fairclough, Martin Luther King, Jr.

James Washington, ed., Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr., selections 

WEDNESDAY

10-12: Black Workers and Organized Labor: From the AFL-CIO merger in 1955 to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Herbert Hill

Readings: Herbert Hill, "The Problem of Race in American Labor History," Reviews in American History, June 1996

Robert J. Norrell, "Cast in Steel: Jim Crow Careers in Birmingham, Alabama," Journal of American History, Dec. 1986, pp. 669-94

Herbert Hill, "The AFL-CIO and the Black Worker: Twenty-Five Years after the Merger," The Journal of Intergroup Relations, spring 1982

Herbert Hill, "Black Dissent in Organized Labor," in Seasons of Rebellion, edited by Joseph Boskin and Robert Rosenstone (1972), pp. 55-80

Bruce Nelson, "'CIO Meant One Thing for the Whites and Another Thing for Us:' Steelworkers and Civil Rights, 1936-1974," in Southern Labor in Transition, ed. By Robert Zeiger

2-4: Labor Union Response to Title 7 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act: Herbert Hill, Julian Bond

Readings: Herbert Hill, "Race and Ethnicity in Organized Labor: The Historical Sources of Resistance to Affirmative Action, The Journal of Intergroup Relations, winter 1984

Herbert Hill, "Black Workers, Organized Labor, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act," in Race in America: The Struggle for Equality, ed. by Hill and Jones (1993) 

THURSDAY

10-12: Bridging the Color Line: From R �n B to Rock �n Roll, Julian Bond

2-4: Black Music and Popular Culture in the fifties and sixties: Discussion with Peter Guralnick, Julian Bond, Cornel West

Peter Guralnick, Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom

George Lipsitz, Rainbow at Midnight, chapter 13 

FRIDAY

10-12: Civil Rights in the Urban North: panel on Detroit as case study: Susanne Smith, Thomas Sugrue, Kevin Boyle

Readings: Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit, chapters 4 - conclusion

Suzanne Smith, Dancing in the Streets: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit (forthcoming; copies of selected chapters to be provided) 

TOPIC 4: THE "POST CIVIL RIGHTS" ERA (July 26-30)

MONDAY

10-12: Race and the Transformation of American Culture: Waldo Martin

Readings: Cornel West, "The New Cultural Politics of Difference," in Keeping Faith, pp. 3-32 

TUESDAY

10-12: Black Power in Historical Perspective

James Forman, Waldo Martin, Julian Bond

Readings: James Forman, The Making of Black Revolutionaries

Komozi Woodard, A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) and Black Power Politics, pages TBA 

WEDNESDAY

10-12: Race and Politics: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, J. Morgan Kousser

Readings: J. Morgan Kousser, Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction, pp. 1-68; 196-242; 456-67

2-4: Black Voting and Politics since 1965, Julian Bond, J. Morgan Kousser 

THURSDAY

10-12: Economic Structures of Racial Inequality: Doug Henwood

2-4: The Debate over Affirmative Action: with Julian Bond, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Doug Henwood, Waldo Martin 

FRIDAY

10-12: Gary Orfield, Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board Of Education

2-4: Bob Moses: The Algebra Project

Moses, et. al. "Organizing in the Spirit of Ella"