Black Atlantic Seminar Series

Brian Purnell  

Fordham University

“A Movement Grows in Brooklyn:
Civil Rights and Black Power in Postwar New York”

Thursday, November 5, 2009

At 4:30PM

RCHA Seminar Room, 88 College Ave. 

Brian Purnell is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Fordham University and Director of the Bronx African American Oral History Project. His research centers on America since World War II, with specific focus on New York City and State, the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, modern liberalism, the development of the US "urban crisis," and twentieth century racial ideology in the US.  Professor Purnell's articles have appeared in Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, Souls, and the anthology Groundwork.

*Copies of the paper are available at 88 College Avenue.