CCSU to Hold Two Black History Month Events Feb 9th

CCSU is to host a Civil Rights activist and an historian in two online events in honor of Black History Month on February 9, 2021.

The CCSU Women’s Center will host Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, for an online presentation, “She Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland.”

CCSU says, of Trumpauer Mulholland, that,

Her Freedom Ride mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. By the time she was 23 years old, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland participated in more than 50 sit-ins and demonstrations including Freedom Rides, the Jackson Woolworth’s sit-in, the March on Washington, the Meredith March, and the Selma to Montgomery March.

“Her path,” CCSU says, “has crossed with some of the biggest names in the Civil Rights Movement: Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, John Lewis, Diane Nash, and Julian Bond to name a few.”

CCSU says that Trumpauer Mulholland, “advocates for use of a multi-faceted approach in teaching individuals through having an expanded education about racism and shedding light on the parts of American history that’s often misunderstood and overlooked.”

Trumpauer Mulholland’s presentation will be at 12:15pm on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. It is to be held on WebEx. “o join the event, go to https://ccsu.webex.com/meet/ccsuwomenscenter,” CCSU says.

Then, at 4:30pm the CCSU Center for Africana Studies will host a presentation by Dr. Harvey Amani Whitfield, who, CCSU says, “will lecture on his new article, ‘White Archives, Black Fragments: The Study of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes.'”

Dr. Whitfield’s biography at the University of Vermont, where he is a professor of United States and Canadian history, says that,

His books include, Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860, The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont, 1777-1810, North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes, and Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents. His current book project is entitled, Biographical Sketches of Black Slaves in Atlantic Canada, which documents the lives of 1,300 enslaved people.

Dr. Whitfield’s lecture is to be held on Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 4:30pm. It is to be held Zoom, accessed by the Zoom meeting link or at meeting ID 835 1325 2292, passcode 500286.

Both event are a part of Central Connecticut State University’s celebration of Black History Month.