“Colonies Speak: African American Women Radicals”
Date: March 22, 2025
Place: Dominions Bookstore
Time: 12:00-1:00
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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
Paula Marie Seniors Talk, “Mae Mallory, Pat Mallory, the Harlem Nine, and Incarceration as a Political Prisoner,” Schomburg, Columbia University Teachers College, NEH, July 22, 2021 /
Paula Marie Seniors Talk, “Mae Mallory, Pat Mallory, the Harlem Nine, and Incarceration as a Political Prisoner,” Schomburg, Columbia University Teachers College, NEH, July 22, 2021
“Mae Mallory, Pat Mallory, the Harlem Nine, and Incarceration as a Political Prisoner,”The Schomburg Center, Columbia University Teachers College, July 22, 2021 /
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
Mae Mallory and The Monroe Defense Committee, Black Power Media, 6/21/2021 /
I will be on Black Power Media discussing Mae Mallory and The Monroe Defense Committee Monday June 21, 2021, between 9-10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6sB_YPwL7E
"Mae Mallory," March 28, 2021 @ 3:30, The Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH Speaker Series /
"Mae Mallory, The Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions," October 28th /
Please join me for my talk "Mae Mallory, The Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions," at the Lee Hagen Africana Studies Center, Jersey City University, October 28th 1pm
"Scott Joplin's Treemonisha," Library of Congress /
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, Southern Illinois University Archives