Left of Black S5:E9: The Long 1970s & The Institute of the Black World

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Historian Derrick E. White (@BlackStar1906), author of The Challenge of Blackness: The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s (University of Florida Press, 2011) and co-editor of Winning While Losing: Civil Rights, The Conservative Movement and the Presidency from Nixon to Obama (University of Florida Press, 2014).

Recalling some of the debates within the Institute of the Black World, the influential Black Think Tank founded by Professors the late Vincent Harding, Stephen Henderson and William Strickland, Professor White notes, “when we talk about activism, we get enamoured in charismatic leadership; I’m interested in logistics…How do we fund people who are going to be on the front lines?” Professor White is Visiting Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College and currently working a book tentatively titled, Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Florida A & M and the Rise and Fall of a Black College Football Dynasty.

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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University and in conjunction with the Center for Arts, Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship (CADCE).

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