April 07, 2008
FROM ABOLITIONISM TO MARTIN LUTHER KING
Clark College -
In 1858 Abraham Lincoln said, "I believe this Government cannot endure,
permanently half slave and half free." Who made abolition possible and how
did the country react to abolition? What abolitionist goals were achieved
during Reconstruction? The course will then consider how Black Americans and
Jim Crow interacted until Martin Luther King initiated a Third American
Revolution.
April 7 – Elliott Trommald – Abolitionism, Lincoln, and the end of slavery
April 14 – Elliott Trommald – Lincoln, Radicals and the Legacy of
Reconstruction
April 21 – The film "Banished" How did three U.S. towns make African
Americans disappear? That's exactly the question Marco Williams,
award-winning filmmaker, seeks to answer as he visits some of the whitest
counties in the country to confront the legacy of "banishment"—a wave of
racial purging that tore through the South 100 years ago.
Williams sits down with KKK leaders, white residents of these all white
communities, as well as descendants of the banished alike, opening the
wounds of history.
April 28 – Levi Harris – Jim Crow era: early 20th century see above
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May 5 – Earl Ford – Jim Crow to MLK – mid 20th century
