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SUMMARY:Untangling Black Internationalisms: Bayard Rustin\, Nonviolence an
 d the Promise of Africa\, c. 1953 - Jake Hodder\, University of Nottingham
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CONTACT:Dr. P MR Howell
DESCRIPTION:“Bayard Rustin is best remembered for his work with Martin L
 uther King Jr. and\, in particular\, for his organisation of the 1963 Marc
 h on Washington for Jobs and Freedom\, the crowning achievement of his pro
 lific career.  This paper reconstructs some of Rustin’s formative years 
 in the early 1950s when he was a leading pacifist charged with developing 
 Gandhian nonviolence in American race relations. The paper considers Rusti
 n’s American race work in the light of his interests in African decoloni
 sation\, centred on his unpublished 1953 “Africa Program”. By consider
 ing a previously ignored African American commentary\, the paper questions
  the tendency to fold Black travels abroad into one another as part of a s
 ingular\, coherent Black internationalist project\, and how specific forms
  of black internationalism centred on nonviolence simultaneously utilised\
 , redefined and undermined the rise of American post-war power.”
LOCATION:Room 101\, Hardy Building\, Department of Geography
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