The persecution of the Jews was never beyond belief for African Americans. It was the big story in the Black press throughout the 1930s. African Americans watched in horror as Nazi oppression grew, and Black journalists, activists and intellectuals sounded the alarm and worked with American Jews to fashion an anti-Fascist rhetoric to alert other Americans to the dangers. Professor Gilmore will delve into this history, including the comparisons that African Americans made at the time between 1930s racism in the US and the antisemitism in Germany that led to the Holocaust.
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Glenda Gilmore is Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History Emerita at Yale University. She currently serves as President of the Southern Historical Association and is a Fellow of the Society of American Historians. Dr. Gilmore is the author of many highly acclaimed books on Southern history including Gender and Jim Crow, which details the central role of Black women in the political history of the Jim Crow era, and Defying Dixie about the pre-1960s civil rights movement. Her newest book, Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination, is forthcoming in May 2022.