Invitation to Speak at Rutgers University /  by Paula Marie Seniors

We write to invite you to the Forty-Fifth annual Marion Thompson Wright (MTW) Lecture Series, one of the nation’s most distinguished and longest-running Black History Month programs. The event will be held on the Rutgers University—Newark campus on Saturday, February 15, 2025. Building on the series’ founding commitment to engage our beloved public, we would behonored for you to speak to our theme of Black transnational activism…. Your work on the Black internationalism and radical activismof Mae Mallory, Audrey Proctor Seniors, and Ethel Azalea Johnson provides an important framework for identifying and understandingthe linkage between Black anti- oppression efforts around the world. We believe your research and writing will offer our cross cultural and multigenerational audience a powerful foundation through which they might examine Black liberation more deeply. Yourdiscussion of Black women’s activism in support of global human rights is powerful and we would welcome a talk about this work with our audience.

 

 

Lacey Hunter, Associate Director

Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience AssociateProfessor of Professional Practice, Department of Africana Studies

 

Jack Tchen, Director

Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience Clement A.Price Professor of Public History & Humanities

 

/  by Paula Marie Seniors

This innovative, thoroughly researched, and captivating book offers a stunning portrait of the personal and political lives of a dynamic group of radical Black women activists. Paula Marie Seniors powerfully unveils how these women agitated for Black liberation on local, national, and international levels.

—Keisha N. Blain, author of Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America

The Black freedom struggle in Monroe, North Carolina, was a critical beachhead for the civil rights and Black Power movements. Paula Seniors’ Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions provides a unique look into the Monroe freedom movement and its role in building revolutionary politics, including armed self-defense and internationalism in the Black liberation struggle. Seniors' work contributes to the unearthing and illuminating of the role of unsung revolutionary Black female freedom fighters Mae Mallory, Ethel Azalea Johnson, and the author’s mother, Audrey Proctor Seniors, and centers their role in the building of the Black radical tradition. Seniors' reconstruction of her family and their comrades' story makes an important contribution to our understanding of the fight for Black freedom, left politics, and global solidarity from the 1950s through the 1980s.

—Akinyele Umoja, author of We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement

Deeply researched, cinematically told, and urgently needed, Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions’ excavation of radical black women as ideologues, global change agents, and as mothers and daughters leads the way to a fuller examination of Black radical women’s impact on history.

—Robyn Spencer, author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland

Toni Shaw Photography Group

“Mae Mallory, Pat Mallory, the Harlem Nine, and Incarceration as a Political Prisoner,”The Schomburg Center, Columbia University Teachers College, July 22, 2021 /  by Paula Marie Seniors

Listed as a “Movement Veteran,” I will be giving the talk "Mae Mallory, Pat Mallory,  The New York Desegregation Case, and Mae’s Incarceration as a Political Prisoner for Educational Reform,” for the NEH Summer Institute’s “Harlem’s Education Movements: Changing the Civil Rights Narrative”

Date: Thursday July 22, 2021

Host: The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Place: Virtual

Time: 4-5


Pat Mallory Oduba Collection

Pat Mallory Oduba Collection

"Scott Joplin's Treemonisha," Library of Congress /  by Paula Marie Seniors

Well my essay “Scott Joplin’s “Treemonisha” was published online by the Library of Congress. Thank you Cary O’Dell for inviting me to contribute the essay.

Seth McCoy as Remus, choreographer and director Katherine Dunham in cap, Contralto Louise Parker as Monisha, Alpha Floyd in pigtails as Treemonisha, and Dr. Wendall Whalum musical Director. Katherine Dunham Archives, Marjorie Lawrence Archives, Sou…

Seth McCoy as Remus, choreographer and director Katherine Dunham in cap, Contralto Louise Parker as Monisha, Alpha Floyd in pigtails as Treemonisha, and Dr. Wendall Whalum musical Director. Katherine Dunham Archives, Marjorie Lawrence Archives, Southern Illinois University Archives