The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute recently digitized five Blackwell Family collections, which span from 1784 to 1981 and detail the activities of a remarkable family of prominent leaders in crucial 19th and 20th social movements, including...
"From Selma to Ferguson: Civil Rights, Black Power, and Racial Tension in the Age of Obama and Black Lives Matter," presented by Dr. Peniel E. Joseph.
Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Politics and Ethics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and Professor of History at The University of Texas at Austin, where he’s also Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. He is the author of the award winning Waiting Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black...
"Copley’s Cato or, The Art of Slavery in the Age of British Liberty"
Seminars are free and open to the public; RSVP required. Subscribe to receive advance copies of the seminar papers.Jane Kamensky, Harvard University...
Schlesinger Library, 10 Garden Street Street Cambridge, MA 02138
This exhibition traces several generations of the extraordinary Blackwell family through collections in the Schlesinger Library. It features selected letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, and diaries as well as books and other publications by members of the Blackwell family.
In this time of militarized policing, racially targeted state violence, and mass incarceration how do we envision queer and feminist justice? This year’s Gender and Sexuality seminar will pursue this question through a variety of lenses: scholarly, archival, legal, and activist. We will examine how race, gender, and sexuality intersect in the criminal legal system, and discuss how they shape the possibilities for—and the risks involved in—intervention and dissent.
