Liberalism on Trial: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Midwest, 1940-1966
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Maltsby, Portia
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection / Series 1: Program Files
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content: 1998 October 31
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content: Box 25, Folder 13
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Program held at the National Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. The program was sponsored by the Program in African American Culture and the National Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. The assembled group of scholars and Chicago community activists provided compelling historical analysis and testimony about the Midwest struggles.

Participants:

Reverend Willie Barrow, Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Rainbow/PUSH Coalition

Charles Branham, Ph.D., Adjunct professor of Minority Studies, Indiana University

Margaret Burroughs, Litt.D. bearer and preserver of African American culture

Mr. Ishmael Flory, labor activist and community organizer

Darlene Clark Hine, Ph.D., John A. Hannah Professor of History, Michigan State University 

Ms. Jorja English Palmer, Founder of Extended Services Programs

James R. Ralph, Ph.D., associate professor of History, Middlebury College,  Connecticut

Alonzo N. Smith, Ph.D., research historian for the Program in African American Culture, National Museum of American History

Thomas J. Sugrue, Ph.D., Associate professor of history and sociology,  University of Pennsylvania

Heather Ann Thompson, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Alderman Dorothy Tillman, activist, politician, visionary

William Tuttle, Ph.D., Professor of history and American studies, University of Kansas

Ronald Walters, Ph.D., President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Youth Council, Wichita, Kansas

Kale Williams, teaches ethics and urban studies, Center for Urban Research, Loyola University

Reverend Addie L. Wyatt, former international vice president and director of Civil Rights, United Food and Commercial Workers Union

The Rainbow/PUSH Choir, formed in June 1968

Program number AC0408.106.