| When | Friday, May 2 – Saturday, May 3, 2014 |
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| Campus location | Communications Building (CMU) |
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| Campus room | 202 |
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| Event Types | Conferences |
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| Event sponsors | Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, Department of Political Science, Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, & Sexuality, College of Arts & Sciences, and the Diversity Research Institute. |
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| | | Description | The "African American Political Thought: Past and Present" conference brings together nationally recognized scholars from political science, philosophy, English, history, and black studies to reflect on historical meaning and contemporary significance of African American political thought. Participants include: - Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia) on Toni Morrison
- Nick Bromell (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) on Harriet Jacobs
- Vincent Carreta (University of Maryland) on Phillis Wheatley
- David Chappell (University of Oklahoma) on Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Michael Dawson (University of Chicago) on Marcus Garvey
- Cedric Johnson (University of Illinois, Chicago) on Huey P. Newton
- Frank Kirkland (Hunter College, CUNY) on Alexander Crummell
- Michael McCann (University of Washington) on A. Philip Randolph
- Naomi Murakawa (Princeton University) on Ida B. Wells
- Neil Roberts (Williams College) on Angela Davis
- Corey Robin (Brooklyn College, CUNY) on Clarence Thomas
- Melvin Rogers (Emory University) on David Walker
- Nikhil Singh (New York University) on Malcolm X
- Mark Wood (Virginia Commonwealth University) on Cornel West
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| Link | depts.washington.edu… |
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