Sarah E. Wright and Black Radical Harlem in the 1960s
A student-led event.
Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Time: 11 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Location: Occidental Lounge, Student Center, Brooklyn College
Sarah E. Wright (1928–2009) is well known for her seminal book, This Child's Gonna Live, a pioneering work of fiction centering around the life of an impoverished black woman in Maryland. Dr. Robyn Spencer will talk briefly about Wright's internationalist consciousness and anti–Vietnam War organizing in groups such as the Harlem Writers Guild, the Cultural Association of Women of African Heritage, the On Guard Committee for Freedom, and the United Afro-American League in 1960s Harlem.
Students from Spencer's spring 2019 courses will share their reflections on doing primary source research on Wright's civil rights and anti–Vietnam War activism and reading her literature and poetry.
