Events for Africana, American, Florida, Judaic, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Women's and Gender Studies
The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was the largest Civil War era, Union Army veterans’ organization. It was the precursor to veterans’ organizations that we know today such as the American Legion. It was also the only racially-integrated national organization in the nineteenth century. This exhibit will commemorate this organization and honor its black and white members as part …
Area StudiesAfricana Studies presents the James Weldon Johnson Lecture Series Join us as Dr. Derrick E. White, Visiting Associate Professor of History, Dartmouth College uses college football at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) as a means to challenge the assumptions of inferior schools as argued during the civil rights movement. From 1945 to 1969, FAMU had the best college football …
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