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SUMMARY:How the Streets Were Made: Housing Segregation and Black Life in America
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation\, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History\, will host a lecture about housing segregation and Black life in the United States. This program is free to the public\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Book\nIn How the Streets Were Made: Housing Segregation and Black Life in America (University of North Carolina Press\, 2020)\, Dr. Bailey looks at the creation of “the streets\,” not just as physical\, racialized spaces produced by segregationist policies\, but also as sociocultural entities that have influenced our understanding of Blackness in America for decades. Drawing from various disciplines–media studies\, literary studies\, history\, sociology\, film studies\, and music studies\, How the Streets Were Made engages in an interdisciplinary analysis of the how the streets have shaped contemporary perceptions of Black identity\, community\, violence\, spending habits\, and belonging. PURCHASE BOOK HERE. \nAbout the Author\nYelena Bailey\, Ph.D. is a writer\, researcher\, and former professor of English and cultural studies. She enjoys writing about race\, power\, policy\, and culture. She is currently the Director of Education Policy at the State of Minnesota’s Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board. \nRegister for Zoom Lecture Here
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/how-the-streets-were-made-housing-segregation-and-black-life-in-america/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation\, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History\, will host a lecture about real estate entrepreneur Philip Payton and the intersection of race\, self-advancement\, social justice and capitalism. This program is free to the public\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Book\nAt the turn of the early twentieth century\, Harlem—the iconic Black neighborhood—was predominantly white. The Black real estate entrepreneur Philip Payton played a central role in Harlem’s transformation. He founded the Afro-American Realty Company in 1903\, vowing to vanquish housing discrimination. Yet this ambitious mission faltered as Payton faced the constraints of white capitalist power structures. \nIn Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem (Columbia University Press\, 2021)\, Kevin McGruder explores Payton’s career and its implications for the history of residential segregation. Payton stood up for the right of Black people to live in Harlem in the face of vocal white resistance. Through skillful use of print media\, he branded Harlem as a Black community and attracted interest from those interested in racial uplift. Yet while Payton “opened” Harlem streets\, his business model depended on continued racial segregation. Like white real estate investors\, he benefited from the lack of housing options available to desperate Black tenants by charging higher rents. Payton developed a specialty in renting all-Black buildings\, rather than the integrated buildings he had once envisioned\, and his personal successes ultimately entrenched Manhattan’s racial boundaries. McGruder highlights what Payton’s story shows about the limits of seeking advancement through enterprise in a capitalist system deeply implicated in racial inequality. \nAt a time when understanding the roots of residential segregation has become increasingly urgent\, this biography sheds new light on the man and the forces that shaped Harlem. PURCHASE BOOK HERE. \nAbout the Author\nKevin McGruder is Associate Professor of History at Antioch College\, Yellow Springs\, Ohio. He received his B.A. in Economics from Harvard University\, a M.B.A. in Real Estate Finance from Columbia University\, and a Ph.D. in History from the Graduate Center of City University of New York. Before pursuing doctoral studies\, he worked for many years in nonprofit community development. He is author of the 2015 book\, Race and Real Estate Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem\, 1890-1920. \nRegister for Zoom Lecture Here
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/philip-payton-the-father-of-black-harlem/
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SUMMARY:"Ground Crew" Essay Contest
DESCRIPTION:CONTEST NARRATIVE \nFor more than half a century\, the Civil Rights Movement has been remembered\, in large part\, by the narratives schools\, media\, and cultural institutions have promulgated with regards to the Movement’s icons. Dr. King and Rosa Parks often are at the center of those narratives\, and for good reason. The struggle to secure the benefits of full citizenship for Black people in the United States\, however\, covers many more than just a paltry 14 years (1954-1968)\, and its foot soldiers number in the hundreds of thousands. \nIn ways both small and grand\, everyday men\, women and children began fighting for Black civil and human rights on the shores of Africa. They continued the fight on the ships that carried them to this country and\, once here (during and after enslavement)\, they fought under circumstances few of us alive today could possibly imagine. And while so-called leaders always emerged\, those elevated to positions of prominence would not have been able to carry out their work\, much less sustain themselves\, were it not for the determination\, support\, and guidance from those in their communities and across the nation. \nWe will never know all the names of the legions of courageous woman men\, and children who fought for justice and equality for Black people in this country. We can\, however\, try to do so. \nThe Baton Foundation’s newly created essay contest\, Ground Crew: Honoring Unknown Civil Rights Activists\, challenges Atlanta youth to research and write about those unknown or lesser-known Black Americans. Now\, and in years to come\, the students’ essays will help us bring to the fore the names and stories of those whose lives were relegated to the blank pages of history. \nELIGIBILTY & REQUIREMENTS \nEligibility \nThe Baton Foundation Ground Crew Essay Contest is open to Atlanta students in grades 8-12. This applies equally to students in public schools\, private and/or parochial schools\, alternative schools and students who receive instruction at home. All entrants must live in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area (specifically\, Clayton\, Cobb\, Dekalb\, Douglas\, Gwinnett\, Henry\, Fayette\, & Fulton Counties). Students enrolled in The Baton Foundation’s Cultural Heritage Program and children of Baton Foundation board members may not participate. \nRequirements \n\nThe deadline to submit essays is Friday\, October 29\, 2021\, at 11:59pm EDT (Late entries will not be accepted).\nSubmit essays to Anthony Knight (aknight@thebatonfoundation.org).\nTyped essays should be a minimum of 700 words\, but no more than 1100 words (citations and bibliography are not included in the total word count).\nEntrants MUST create original work (without influence from or written by teachers\, parents\, siblings\, mentors\, etc.)\nWell-known Civil Rights icons are not eligible subjects for essays (i.e.\, Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, Coretta Scott King\, Rosa Parks\, Malcolm X\, Congressman John Lewis\, Fannie Lou Hamer\, Ambassador Andrew Young\, etc.). If in doubt\, please contact us.\nEssays must identify an unknown or lesser-known Black Civil Rights activist working during 1954-1968 (the year Dr. King was assassinated). The essay must address the person’s life before s/he became socially active\, the event(s) that led to the individual’s active participation in the Civil Rights Movement\, the specific way(s) in which that person’s work impacted her/his community\, region\, or nation; and the work in which the person was involved following Dr. King’s death.\nEssays about well-known Civil Rights Movement leaders will be disqualified.\n\nSource Materials \n\nEssays must list at least 3 source materials.\nAll entrants must cite the source materials they use. Please use parenthetical citations (not footnotes) to reference source material.\nBibliographies must be included with each essay. Please use Kate A. Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Terms Papers\, Theses\, and Dissertations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press\, 2007.\n\nRECOGNITION AND AWARDS \n\nThe first-place winner will receive a $250 cash award and a copy of Kate Clifford Larson’s book\, Walk With Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer (Oxford University Press\, 2021). The winner will also participate as a speaker in a virtual public program with Ms. Larson and Baton Foundation president Anthony Knight on Sunday\, December 5\, 2021.\nThe second-place winner will receive $150 cash award and a copy of Kate Clifford Larson’s book\, Walk With Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer (Oxford University Press\, 2021).\nFirst- and second-place winners will be notified on November 22\, 2021.\nFirst- and second-place winners will be announced via email to all entrants by November 29\, 2021.\n\nWe respectfully ask that you not call The Baton Foundation for information regarding the status of your essay. Thank you.
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