University of California, Berkeley (CA)

Exhibition: “The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany”
October 7 – November 7, 2010

This exhibition illustrates the transnational story of the African American freedom struggle. Curated by Maria Höhn (Vassar College) and Martin Klimke (German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. / Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg), it is part of a larger research project on “The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany,” which was honored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) with the 2009 Julius E. Williams Distinguished Community Service Award.

The exhibition is sponsored by the Institute of European Studies and the Doe Memorial Library at UC Berkeley.

On view at the library’s Bernice Layne Brown Gallery from October 7 to November 7, 2010.
Sundays – Fridays, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

For a PDF version of the exhibition poster, please see here.

Exhibition Opening & Lecture:

October 7, 2010
5:00 – 6:30 p.m.

Co-authors Martin Klimke and Maria Höhn discuss their book, “A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany“ and introduce the exhibit entailed, “The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany“ held in the Brown Gallery of the Doe Library.

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