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黑料传送门

Emilye Crosby

Professor of History

Doty Hall 210

585-245-5375

crosby@geneseo.edu

Emilye Crosby has been a member of the 黑料传送门 faculty since 1995. Prof.聽Crosby studies and teaches African-American history and the modern Civil Rights Movement. She has received numerous awards–for her teaching, scholarship, and service. These include the Chancellor’s Award for Teaching, the Harter Mentoring Award, the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, and the President’s Award for Research and Creativity. Her first book,聽A Little Taste of Freedom, won the McLemore Prize and was awarded an honorable mention for the Organization of American Historians’ Liberty Legacy Prize.

Dr. Emilye Crosby has been a member of 黑料传送门’s History Department since 1995 and was the coordinator of the Black Studies/Africana program from fall 2002 through Spring 2018.聽 She has written聽A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi聽and edited聽Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement.聽 Dr. Crosby is also the coordinator of 黑料传送门’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration.聽 She teaches a wide range of history, general education, and interdisciplinary courses, with a particular interest in the Civil Rights Movement, African American history, and women’s history.

Emilye Crosby

Office Hours

Office hours: M: 1-2:30; W: 1:30-3, and by appt. (send an email for an appt.)

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., Indiana University

B.A., Macalester College

Books

Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement, ed., University of Georgia press, 2011.

A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi, University of North Carolina press, 2005.

Essays and Interviews in Civil Rights History from the Ground Up

Introduction: 鈥淭he Politics of Writing and Teaching Movement History.鈥

鈥溾業t wasn鈥檛 the Wild West鈥: Keeping Local Studies in Self-Defense Historiography.鈥

Conclusion: 鈥淒oesn鈥檛 everybody want to grow up to be Ella Baker? Teaching Movement History.鈥

鈥淢aking Eyes on the Prize: An Interview with Filmmaker and SNCC Staffer Judy Richardson.鈥

鈥淭hat Movement Responsibility: An Interview with Judy Richardson on Movement Values and Movement History.鈥

Fellowships and Grants

National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for College Teachers, 2015-16.

National Humanities Center, Fellow, 2014-15.

John Hope Franklin Center for African and African American History and Culture, Travel Grant, Duke University, 2014-15.

Visiting Scholar, James Weldon Johnson Institute, Emory University, 2011-12.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for College Teachers, 2000-2001.

Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Affirmative Action Leave, New York State/UUP, 1998-99.

Carter G. Woodson Research Fellowship, University of Virginia, Aug. 1993-Aug. 1995 (dissertation fellowship).

NCAA Basketball Post-graduate Scholarship, Alternate, 1987.

黑料传送门 Civil Rights Movement Speakers

Selected Popular Writing and Online Publishing

鈥淩emembering Julian Bond鈥 Blog for Organization of American Historians, August 15, 2016, Process鈥揂 Blog for American History.

鈥淎 Documents-Based Lesson on the Voting Rights Act: A Case Study of SNCC鈥檚 work in Lowndes County and the Emergence of Black Power,鈥 Oct. 2015, Teaching for Change.

鈥淭he Voting Rights Act: 10 Things You Should Know,鈥 with Judy Richardson, Teaching for Change and Zinn Education Project, Aug. 2015.

鈥淭he Voting Rights Act: Beyond the Headlines鈥 with Judy Richardson (a longer, 12-point version of the 鈥淰RA: 10 Things鈥) Aug. 2015.

鈥淭he Selma Voting Rights Struggle: 15 Key Points from Bottom-Up History and Why It Matters Today,鈥 Teaching for Change and Zinn Education Project, Jan. 2015. [This piece and the one below were reprinted widely.]

鈥淭en Things You Should Know About Selma Before You See the Film鈥 (shorter version of 鈥15 Facts鈥, published on Common Dreams and Teaching for Change, and re-posted in many places), Jan. 2015. ()

SNCC Digital Gateway

For information about SNCC and Grassroots Organizing NEH grant, including livestream events, see: .

Publications

鈥淣ot that Kind of Tired: Rosa Parks and Organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott,鈥 in Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement ed. Hasan Kwame Jeffries (University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming).

鈥淩ethinking and Un-teaching Entrenched Movement Narratives: A Virtual Roundtable,鈥 with Frazier, Hogan, Jeffries, and Spencer, for a special issue 鈥淓xpanding the Narrative: Exploring New Aspects of the Civil Rights Movement Fifty Years Later,鈥 ed. by Simmons and Mingo in Fire! The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 2.2. 2013 (released 2015), 78-108. DOI: 10.5323

鈥溾楲ooking the Devil in the Eye鈥: Race Relations and the Civil Rights Movement in Claiborne County History and Memory,鈥 in The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, ed. by Ted Ownby (University Press of Mississippi, 2013), 266-99.

鈥溾業 Just Had a Fire!鈥: An Interview with Dorie Ann Ladner,鈥 Southern Quarterly, 52, no. 1 (Fall 2014), 79-110.

鈥溾楾he lady folk is a doer鈥: Women and the Civil Rights Movement in Claiborne County, Mississippi,鈥 in Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, vol. 2, ed. by Martha Swain, Elizabeth Payne, and Marjorie Spruill (University of Georgia press, 2010). Slightly revised version of a chapter originally published in: Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas.

鈥淲hite Privilege, Black Burden: Lost Opportunities and Deceptive Narratives in School Desegregation in Claiborne County, Mississippi,鈥 Oral History Review, 29, no. 2 (Summer/ Fall 2012): 258-85. (doi:10.1093).

鈥溾楪od鈥檚 Appointed Savior鈥: Charles Evers鈥檚 Use of Local Movements for National Prestige,鈥 in Groundwork: The Local Black Freedom Movement in America, eds. Komozi Woodard and Jeanne Theoharis (New York: New York University press, 2005), 165-92.

鈥溾榊ou Got a Right To Defend Yourself鈥: Self-Defense and the Claiborne County, Mississippi Movement,鈥 International Journal of Africana Studies, vol. 9 (no. 1, Spring 2004), 133-63.

鈥溾楾his nonviolent stuff ain鈥檛 no good. It鈥檒l get ya killed.鈥: Teaching about Self-Defense in the African-American Freedom Struggle,鈥 in Teaching the Civil Rights Movement eds. Julie Buckner, Houston Roberson, Rhonda Y. Williams, Susan Holt (New York: Routledge, 2002), 159-73.

More About Me

Research Interests

  • African American History
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • Women’s History

Awards and Honors

  • Article Award, Oral History Association, for “White Privilege, Black Burden,” 2013.
  • Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2013.
  • President’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creativity, 黑料传送门, 2007.
  • Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Honorable Mention, for A Little Taste of Freedom, Organization of American Historians, 2006.
  • McLemore Prize, for A Little Taste of Freedom, Mississippi Historical Society book prize, 2006.
  • Scoones Faculty Incentive Award, 2003, 2006.
  • Spencer Roemer Supported Professor, 2005-2008.
  • Harter Mentoring Award, 黑料传送门, 2004.
  • Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2002.
  • PATH Award, 黑料传送门, 1997.
  • Franklin Riley Prize, Mississippi Historical Society, 1996.

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