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African American U-M students pickieting in support of the Black Action Movement.

Making Michigan

Radical Roots, Contested Place: African American and African Studies at U-M with Stephen Ward

Event Details

date and Time

Thursday, October 15, 2020, 7:00pm – 8:30pm

Event Type

In-person

Location

Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory 1398 E. Ann Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Fall 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS).

Associate Professor in DAAS and Associate Director of the Residential College Stephen Ward shares the story of the Black Action Movement of 1970 and the struggle for the creation of DAAS. Co-sponsored by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and the African Studies.