On July 6th and 7th, 2018, we will celebrate and study the essential role and leadership of women in our struggle for freedom. We look to the contributions of the great leaders Winnie Mandela, Coretta Scott King, Indira Gandhi, and the creative geniuses Nina Simone and Shirley Graham Du Bois as examples. Their lives and work show us the deep ties between women's liberation, the liberation of the darker nations and all of humanity, and the struggle for world peace.
Materials
1) Shirley Graham’s keynote address at the Founding Convention of the Progressive Party, July 23, 1948
keynote speech by Shirley Graham at the Progressive Party founding convention and urging support for Henry Wallace and Glen Taylor for President, who made an end to Jim Crow a part of their platform. Coretta Scott King was also present.
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b121-i315
2) Audio letter from Gus Hall, James E. Jackson and Ben Davis to Shirley and W. E. B. Du Bois, July 1963 sending "warmest and comradely greetings of love" to Shirley and W. E. B. Du Bois and discussing the progress and momentum of civil rights for black citizens of the United States.
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b250-i006
3) Address by W. E. B. Du Bois delivered at All African Peoples' Conference, Accra, Ghana, December 9, 1958
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b285-i149
Typed speech delivered at the conference by Shirley Graham Du Bois, with notes recounting W.E.B.'s connection to Africa, his efforts at building a Pan African movement, the worldwide movement towards Socialism, and urging Africans to embrace Pan-African socialism.
Materials
1) Shirley Graham’s keynote address at the Founding Convention of the Progressive Party, July 23, 1948
keynote speech by Shirley Graham at the Progressive Party founding convention and urging support for Henry Wallace and Glen Taylor for President, who made an end to Jim Crow a part of their platform. Coretta Scott King was also present.
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b121-i315
2) Audio letter from Gus Hall, James E. Jackson and Ben Davis to Shirley and W. E. B. Du Bois, July 1963 sending "warmest and comradely greetings of love" to Shirley and W. E. B. Du Bois and discussing the progress and momentum of civil rights for black citizens of the United States.
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b250-i006
3) Address by W. E. B. Du Bois delivered at All African Peoples' Conference, Accra, Ghana, December 9, 1958
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b285-i149
Typed speech delivered at the conference by Shirley Graham Du Bois, with notes recounting W.E.B.'s connection to Africa, his efforts at building a Pan African movement, the worldwide movement towards Socialism, and urging Africans to embrace Pan-African socialism.
