Freedom Struggles 1956

The next guest in the Department of American Studies' series is Professor James Meriwether from California State University, who will give a lecture titled Freedom Struggles 1956: The United States, the Cold War, and Three Continents.

Jim Meriwether is a Professor of History in Southern California at California State University Channel Islands. His past work focuses on examining transnational dimensions of freedom struggles by people in the United States and Africa during the mid-20th Century, with him now bringing Europe more fully into the picture to better understand transatlantic efforts by individuals, movements, and nations to secure and advance essential human rights. His most recent book, Tears, Fire, and Blood: The United States and the Decolonization of Africa, came out in 2021 and was named a finalist for the 2022 Sterling Stuckey Book Prize from the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora.