Social Psychologist Dr. Eden-Reneé Hayes and Storyteller Onawumi Jean Moss celebrate the lives of Anthropologist Elizabeth Stubbs Davis, Civil Rights Activist Diane Nash and Dorothy Irene Heights, President of the National Council of Negro Women. This conversation, facilitated by Talya Kingston is presented in connection with WAM’s production of Cadillac Crew, and in solidarity with Banned Books week, an annual celebration of the freedom to read. The Erased History Conversation Series was supported by the Brabson Family and Library Foundation.
The speakers recommend the following resources:
Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The Lost Black Scholar: Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought by David A. Varel
Strategic Sisterhood: The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle by Rebecca Tuuri
Pillars of Fire: America in the King Years (1963-65) by Taylor Branch
Legacy: Black and White in America – a documentary featuring Dorothy Height