LEADER
Dr. Vincent Gaddis is Professor of History at Elgin County Community College. He is also a community activist through the Justice Renewal Initiative, DuPage NAACP and Study Circles Illinois. His latest research project is entitled “Revolution in Values: Why America Must Embrace the Beloved Community.” The dialogue in this seminar will definitely help in working though key issues in that work.
READINGS
Martin Luther King, “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” “Black Power” “The Sword that Heals”
Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet” 1964
10-Point Plan of the Black Panther Party
Angela Davis, “Freedom is a Constant Struggle”
Booker T. Washington “Atlanta Exposition Speech”
W.E.B. DuBois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”
Integration or separation? Accommodation or antiracism? Black Power, nationalism or multiculturalism? The philosophical roots of the African American freedom struggle have never been homogeneous. Over the course of the 20th century, several important thinkers outlined their theories and principles for struggle and what it meant to win freedom.Broadly understood, the primary contention was the two roads you can go by: integration or nationalism. This seminar will put those thinkers in dialogue as we use an inquiry-based approach to understand the varieties of thought in the Black freedom struggle. For example, we will place W.E.B. DuBois in dialogue with Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey; Martin Luther King in dialogue with Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and Angela Davis; and Benjamin Barber in dialogue with Patrisse Khan Cullors.
Practical details
Once you register, you’ll get an order confirmation. We’ll send you the Zoom link and a welcome letter from your leader about 3 weeks before the seminar starts.
Classical Pursuits will record this seminar, and make each session privately available to registered participants for up to two weeks after that session.
Online seminar payments are nonrefundable. Discount codes must be used at the time of purchase.
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