On the Road to Freedom: A Civil Rights Tour
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Crystal N. Feimster, a native of North Carolina, is an Associate Professor in the Departments of African American Studies and History and the Programs of American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. She earned her Ph. D. in History from Princeton University and her BA in History and Women's Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill. Feimster has also taught at Boston College, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Princeton. She teaches a range of courses in 19th and 20th century African American history, women's history, and southern history. "The Long Civil Rights Movement" and "Critical Race Theory" are her most popular undergraduate courses at Yale. Feimster has received numerous teaching and mentoring awards and is an OAH Distinguished Lecturer. She has been a faculty fellow at the American Academy of Art Science in Cambridge, MA, the Dubois Institute at Harvard, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
The Civil Rights Movement that looms over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s.
Co-sponsored by Yale Alumni College
Faculty:
Crystal Feimster
DOMESTIC PROGRAM
October 23 - 30, 2022
Crystal Feimster