#CharlestonSyllabus(Charleston Syllabus),is a Twitter movement and crowdsourced syllabus using the hashtag #CharlestonSyllabus to compile a list of reading recommendations relating to the history of racial violence in the United States. It was created in response to the race-motivated violence in Charleston,South Carolina on the evening of June 17,2015,when Dylann Roof opened fire during a Bible study session at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church,killing 9 people.
Brenda Elaine Stevenson is an American historian specializing in the history of the Southern United States and African American history,particularly slavery,gender,race and race riots. She is Professor and Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History and Professor in African-American Studies at the University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA). As of Autumn 2021,she was appointed inaugural Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women's History at St John's College,University of Oxford.
Jessica Millward is an American historian who focuses on African American history,early America,African diaspora,slavery,and gender. Her work focuses on the female slave experience by emphasizing narratives of black women during slavery.
Mittie Maude Lena Gordon was an American black nationalist who established the Peace Movement of Ethiopia. The organization advocated black emigration to West Africa in response to racial discrimination and white supremacy.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an American academic,writer,and activist. She is a professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016). For this book,Taylor received the 2016 Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book from the Lannan Foundation.
Francille Rusan Wilson is an American historian,who is best known for her research on black labor,social movements and black women's history.
Jill Millstone is a professor of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. She works on metal-ligand chemistry in nanoparticle synthesis. She is the American Chemical Society Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecturer for 2018.
Louise Helen Norton Little was a Grenadian-born American activist. She was the mother of Malcolm X.
Daphne C. Watkins,is an author,researcher,executive coach,and professor who studies behavioral health interventions for historically marginalized groups,mixed methods approaches to research in context,and leadership development/organizational management.
Martha S. Jones is an American historian and legal scholar. She is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. She studies the legal and cultural history of the United States,with a particular focus on how Black Americans have shaped the history of American democracy. She has published books on the voting rights of African American women,the debates about women's rights among Black Americans in the early United States,and the development of birthright citizenship in the United States as promoted by African Americans in Baltimore before the Civil War.
John Mckee Wallace,Jr. is an American sociologist who is the David E. Epperson Chair and Professor,Center on Race and Social Problems at the University of Pittsburgh. He also serves as Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity at the University of Pittsburgh.
Marcia Chatelain is an American academic who serves as the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2021,she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book Franchise:The Golden Arches in Black America,for which she also won the James Beard Award for Writing in 2022. Chatelain was the first black woman to win the latter award.
The Darlene Clark Hine Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for best book in African American women's and gender history. Darlene Clark Hine is an expert of African-American history and was President of the OAH in 2001–2002.
Sasha Deborah Turner is a Jamaican-American historian who is an associate professor of history of at the Johns Hopkins University Department of the History of Medicine. Her research considers the history of the Caribbean,with a particular focus on enslavement and colonialism. She is co-president of the Coordinating Council for Women in History.
Kay Michille Brummond is an American synthetic chemist who is Professor of Chemistry and Associate Dean of Faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. Her interests consider cycloaddition reactions that can realise molecules and natural products for organic photovoltaics and targeted covalent inhibitors. She was elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in 2010,a Fellow of the AAAS in 2021,and awarded the ACS National Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences in 2021.
Four Hundred Souls:A Community History of African America,1619–2019 is a 2021 anthology of essays,commentaries,personal reflections,short stories,and poetry,compiled and edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Conceived and created to commemorate the four hundred years that had passed since the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia,the book concerns African-American history and collects works written by ninety Black writers. A winner or finalist of multiple awards in its print and audiobook editions,Four Hundred Souls has been widely praised by reviewers for its prose and historical content.
Olajumoke Yacob-Halisois a Nigerian university professor whose work focuses on African women in post-conflict contexts;African refugees,gender and politics;democracy;and African politics. She has published multiple books on women's issues in Africa,an editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies and the Journal of International Politics and Development.
Premilla Nadasen is an activist and historian,who specialises in the histories of women of colour in the welfare rights movement. She was President of the National Women's Studies Association from 2018 to 2020. She is the author of Welfare Warriors:The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States (2005) and Household Workers Unite:The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement (2016).
Dara Abubakari was an activist and advocate for Pan-African organizing and black nation-building. She was an important member of a number of organizations,including the Universal Negro Improvement Association,the Communist Party,and the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women. In later decades,she emerged as a key leader in groups such as the Republic of New Africa and the Revolutionary Action Movement. Through her guidance,these organizations helped inspire and influence the next generation of activists with their Pan-African political vision and dedication to activism.
