Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from.
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A world of interconnected regions
Manuscript Workshop
Book Symposium
Book Symposium
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land, Alaina Roberts
Our department is co-sponsoring a book launching event as part of the Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures series.
I've Been Here All The While, Black Freedom on Native Land by Alaina Roberts
With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism, Laura Lovett
Book Symposium in honor of Laura Lovett’s With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Community Activism (Beacon Press, 2021)
Speakers:
Keisha Blain, Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
Martha Jones, Professor of History and Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Mellon Professor Carla Nappi
Lecture 4:00-5:00pm
Reception 5:00-6:00pm