Fashioning the Protest: The Civil Rights Movement and the Politics of Dress
Thursday, February 22, 2024 12:30pm to 1:30pm
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Celebrate Black History Month with the Howard University Department of History
Angela T. Tate is Curator of Women’s History at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Prior to joining the Smithsonian, she worked as curator and public historian in a variety of archives and museums that focused on telling inclusive and expansive stories of the American past. She is a PhD candidate in History at Northwestern University, and was educated at California State University, San Bernardino and Sacramento City College. Her dissertation follows the history of Black women in radio and their involvement in global civil rights movements, with an emphasis on the intersections between celebrity, activism, and feminism. This work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the New York Public Library, and the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute. Her work has been published in Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, and several upcoming publications. Find more information at www.atpublichistory.com
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