On April 21 at 5:00 pm the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program will host a webinar on the experiences of White anti-racist activists in Alachua and Putnam counties from 1980 to the present.
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The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center, and the Iota Lambda Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. hosted “OverKome: Persevering with Collective, Community-Led Development.” The panel discussed issues of violence, housing, income, food, health, and education disparities.
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The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, the UF Department of Linguistics, and the All Y’all Social Justice Collective presents Oral Histories as Curriculum: Bringing African American History into the K-12 Classroom, and educational and panelist event supported by the NEH Reanimating African Americans Oral Histories of the Gulf South grant project.
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Two years after the Ocoee massacre, and one year before the destruction of Rosewood by a White mob, one Black man stood up to the Ku Klux Klan in Jim Crow Florida. Black WWI Veteran Oscar Mack received a federal appointment as Postmaster in Kissimmee. One hundred years later, interviews with Mack’s descendants reveal the true story.
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A panel of four distinguished spring activists and scientists will present their perspectives on evaluating the health of Florida Springs, followed by audience Q&A. Following the presentation, guests will have the opportunity to participate in one of three workshops: Science communication, wildlife photography, and communicating with different stakeholders.
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SPOHP’s OGUS project is cohosting a one-day virtual conference on September 10 titled, Assessing the Ethnic Groups of the Late Ottoman Empire through a Decolonial Lens 1900 -1922. The link for the event can be found here.
The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program’s 13th annual Mississippi Freedom Project Research Trip is scheduled for the week of July 12 – July 19. To participate, please click here to complete the application by June 4, 2021, at 11:59 PM.
Vietnam War Veteran and Veterans For Peace activist Scott Camil is the subject of a new graphic novel by Eve Gilbert titled Winter Warrior. The book relays Camil’s life growing up in Florida in the 1960s as he was indoctrinated with anti-communist sentiment while also developing a deep seeded desire to fight for his country. After […]
In 2019, the University of Florida’s African American Studies Program will celebrate its 50th anniversary. The program began in 1969 and selected its first director in 1970. The late Dr. Ronald Foreman was a tireless advocate for the program from 1970 until his retirement in 2000. We will host a number of programs this year […]
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Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 4:00 – 5:00 PM EST Historic Haile Homestead at Kanapaha Plantation 8500 SW Archer Rd, Gainesville, Florida 32608
Read more "Historic Haile Homestead Discussion: “Emancipation Betrayed” by Paul Ortiz"