The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany - A Digital Archive created by the GHI Washington, HCA Heidelberg, and Vassar College

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“Do you know what it’s like for a Negro to be among the ‘conquerors’ instead of the defeated? We learned about it for the first time when we ‘occupied’ Germany and none of us ever got over it. We will never go back to the old way again.“

William Gardner Smith, Interview in the New York Post (September 1959)

NEWS:

GHI Receives 2010 Partner Award of the Humanities Council
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Maria Höhn Wins DAAD/GSA Prize for the Best Article in the German Studies Review
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Photography Exhibition
Germany:
Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut German American Institute
Tübingen
October 1 - November 26, 2010

USA:
University of California, Berkeley, CA
October 7 - November 7, 2010

A Breath of Freedom
By Maria Höhn &
Martin Klimke
Forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan Fall 2010
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House Resolution Recognizing the Difficult Challenges and Heroism of Black Veterans
February 24, 2010
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Marvin Gilmore Honored for WW II Military Service
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Boston Globe article

Vernon Baker, Belated Medal of Honor Recipient, Dies at 90
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Events

CURRENT & UPCOMING EVENTS:

Lecture: “Schwarze und Rote Panther: Die afroamerikanische Bürgerrechtsbewegung und Black Power in der Bundesrepublik der 1960/70er Jahre“
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 7:00 pm
Lecture by Martin Klimke, GHI Washington, DC
America House, Munich, Germany
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Exhibition Opening: Der Kampf um die Bürgerrechte: Afroamerikanische GIs und Deutschland
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Introduction by Maria Höhn, Vassar College
Photography Exhibition at America House Munich, Germany
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EVENT HISTORY:

Exhibition: African American Civil Rights and Germany - Afroamerikanische GIs in Deutschland
November 27 - December 22, 2009
Photography Exhibition at the Vertretung des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz, Berlin, Germany
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Exhibition: The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany
October 01 - 29, 2009
Photography Exhibition at James W. Palmer III Gallery at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
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Conference: African-American Civil Rights and Germany in the 20th Century
(CfP deadline: March 01, 2009)
October 01 - 04, 2009
Jointly organized by the German Historical Institute, Washington DC and Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
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Exhibition: The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany
May 29 - July 19, 2009
Photography Exhibition at the Ramstein Air Base Documentary & Exhibition Center, Ramstein, Germany
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XXIV. Black International Cinema Berlin: “A Complexion Change: International & Intercultural Diplomacy“
May 2009
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“City Unmasked” – A Book and Documentary Premiere
Friday, May 1, 2009
Humanities Council of Washington, DC
Premiere and Panel Discussion at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC
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Black Knowledges, Black Struggles, Civil Rights: Transnational Perspectives
March 25 - 29, 2009
8th International Conference of the Collegium for African American Research, Bremen
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“African-American Awareness Day“
March 21, Frankfurt
AAGE (African-American German Exchange) e.V.

Black Diaspora and Germany Across the Centuries
March 19 - 21, 2009
Conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC
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Black History Month 2009, Berlin
February 2009
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Black History Month 2009, Hamburg
January 31 - March 8, 2009
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Exhibition: African-American Civil Rights and Germany
November 2008 - April 2009
Photography Exhibition at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC
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Lecture: Civil Rights and America's Role in World War II
January 13, 2009
Speaker: Harvard Sitkoff (University of New Hampshire)
Lecture at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC
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Panel Discussion: Martin Luther King Jr. and Germany in the 1960s
November 19, 2008
German Historical Institute, Washington DC
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Workshop: 1968 - Forty Years Later
April 12, 2008
Vassar College
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