Featured News and Events
Featured News and Events
The Center for the Study of Slavery in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø (CSSC) is committed to sharing important news and events related to its mission. For more CSSC news and events, click the link to the CSSC's Official Blog below!
Dangerous Learning with Dr. Derek Black
For enslaved southerners literacy was a path to freedom. Despite harsh suppression, they defied barriers to learn. Even in Post-Civil War and Jim Crow America their struggle continued but in new ways. Derek Black tells their stories and their implications for today’s fraught educational landscape.
CSSC Remembrance Program
CSSC and the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Branch of ASALH collaborate for the annual Remembrance Program commemorating the lives of all who perished and survived the Middle Passage.
Derek Black On History & Current Events
Hoping to see you at the event!
CSSC's Annual Lecture
Join us for the CSSC's Annual Lecture with Dr. Christina Dickerson-Cousin discussing her book, Black Indians and Freedmen: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816-1916.Â
CSSC Presents: Who Is Native?
Join us for a student workshop with Dr. Christina Dickerson-Cousin discussing her book, Black Indians and Freedmen: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816-1916.Â
BHM Lecture with Dr. Shannon Eaves
The Annual Black History Month Lecture will be presented by Dr. Shannon C. Eaves, author of Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South on Feb. 19th at 5pm in the School of Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering Building, Room 129.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø ASALH and CSSC Kicks Off BHM
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Area Branch of ASALH and CSSC is hosting a Black History Month Kick Off Event on Sat., Feb. 1, 2025. This year’s theme, African Americans and Labor, focuses on ways labor has shaped the experience of African Americans throughout history.
Carter G. Woodson, Black History Month
Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History promoting Black historical achievements. He later launched the Journal of Negro History and Negro History Week, now known as Black History Month.
Legacy Talks - Civil Rights Program
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Center for the Study of Slavery fosters understanding of slavery’s lasting legacies through research, teaching, and community dialogue. The 1967 Legacy Scholars students will discuss ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø's Civil Rights Movement. See the flyer for more details.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Middle Passage Remembrance
Join the Center for the Study of Slavery in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Area Branch Association for the Study of African American Life and History on June 8th, 2024 for the 27th Annual ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Middle Passage Remembrance Commemoration Ceremony! For more details, click on the link below!
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