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Please join the Archival History Section for a lecture by Laura E. Helton on April 6th at 12PM EST. The talk is titled "Mobilizing Manuscripts: L. D. Reddick and Black Archival Politics."
Helton will discuss her recent book, Scattered and Fugitive Things, which tells the stories of Black collectors who created the first enduring set of African American archives in the United States. She will focus in particular on the work of historian L. D. Reddick, who helmed the Schomburg Collection in Harlem during World War II. As the U.S. waged war for democracy abroad, Reddick stood in the vanguard of African Americans who called for radical change at home and an end to colonial power in Africa. Reddick's organizing strategy took shape, in part, through an archival initiative to collect Black soldiers' letters. Suspicious of the U.S. government's fidelity to democratic forms of recordkeeping, Reddick understood archiving as movement-building. This talk will explore how Black archives, then and now, occasion radical reimaginings of the present and future.
Register for this free lecture and learn more here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/irDojsaZSEKGEliW2cBkRQ#/registration
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Elizabeth Jones-Minsinger (she/her)
Chair, Archival History Section
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