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MEDIA CONTACT: Frederick Douglass Institute (585) 275-7235 or Sharon Dickman 585.275.4128
April 15, 2004
TIME, DATE, AND PLACE: 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 21, in room 302 of Morey Hall on the University of Rochester’s River Campus
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public
David Lewis-Colman, postdoctoral fellow at the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, will discuss how gender shaped the activism of black auto workers in Detroit at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 21, in room 302 of Morey Hall on the University of Rochester’s River Campus.
His talk titled “Our Men Are Fighting: Gender and Black Power among Detroit’s Auto Workers” will examine the politics of civil rights and how it played out inside the automobile plants of Detroit from the 1940s to the 1970s. The role of masculinity was critical in defining civil rights politics inside the auto plants, but African-American women sought to expand the definition of the city’s labor-based civil rights struggles. For them, racial and gender equality linked the workplace and the community.
The presentation by Lewis-Colman, who earned his doctoral degree in history from the University of Iowa, is part of the Frederick Douglass Institute’s Work in Progress Seminar Series, a multi-disciplinary seminar on topics related to Africa and its Diaspora.
The talk is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Frederick Douglass Institute at (585) 275-7235.
The University of Rochester (www.rochester.edu) is one of the nation's leading private universities. Located in Rochester, N.Y., the University gives students exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. Its College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering is complemented by the Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and the Memorial Art Gallery.
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