BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:15047-5379a4a3b0811b6e2b5c2e4e7fa72ff1@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260502T022044Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250408T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250408T130000 SUMMARY:“Insubordination: Anna Julia Cooper and the ‘Courageous Revolt’ against Jim Crow Education” DESCRIPTION:\nIn this talk\, Shirley Moody-Turner discusses her biograph y-in-progress on Anna Julia Cooper\, trailblazing Black educator\, intel lectual\, and activist\, who fought to maintain and expand Black access to higher education.  She explores what was at stake in the battle over Black higher education at the turn into the twentieth century and shows how the national ascendency of Jim Crow segregation played out in the lo cal politics affecting the lives of Black Washingtonians. Her talk chart s how this struggle propelled Cooper’s own journey to become one of the first Black women to earn a doctoral degree\, while also documenting the collective strategies she and her contemporaries enacted to respond to the assault on Black higher education.\n\nFor more details: https://even ts.la.psu.edu/event/insubordination/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In this talk, S hirley Moody-Turner discusses her biography-in-progress on Anna Julia Co oper, trailblazing Black educator, intellectual, and activist, who fough t to maintain and expand Black access to higher education.  She explores what was at stake in the battle over Black higher education at the turn into the twentieth century and shows how the national ascendency of Jim Crow segregation played out in the local politics affecting the lives o f Black Washingtonians. Her talk charts how this struggle propelled Coop er’s own journey to become one of the first Black women to earn a doctor al degree, while also documenting the collective strategies she and her contemporaries enacted to respond to the assault on Black higher educati on.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/insubordination/

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