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W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies

50th Anniversary Virtual Symposium

Conscious to Woke: Fifty Years of Revolutionary Black Thought

Program

Proud and Loud
50th Anniversary Virtual Symposium
22-24 October 2020

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Speakers

William A. “Sandy” Darity Jr. and Moya Bailey

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Organizers & Sponsors

50th Anniversary Symposium Planning Group and Partners

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Learn more about the New Africa House Student Support Fund
Johnnetta B. Cole March to Whitmore

Founded in 1970 during the era of social and political change in the United States, the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies on the UMass Amherst campus was among the first departments of Black Studies and was the second department to offer the doctoral degree.

Establishing a department of Black Studies was a revolutionary act fifty years ago and that revolution continues.

This symposium speaks to the current state of the nation in the throes of movements addressing equal justice and challenging anti-Blackness, illustrating the ongoing significance of Black Studies. Over three days, the symposium will present student-activist and faculty founders of Black studies on the UMass Amherst campus and in the Pioneer Valley along with current students and faculty in loud and proud discussions designed to present the history of the department’s founding and insights on the student movement establishing Black Studies in the Valley.

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