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Online Papers for 2004 OAH Annual Meeting

Thursday, March 25, 2004
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Reel Revolution: Movies and Cultural Tumult
Fighting for Freedom of the Screen: The Legal Battle over State Film Censorship, 1930-1965
Laura Wittern-Keller, University at Albany

Friday, March 26, 2004
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Revolutionary Moments: Teaching Key Documents in Women’s History
Press Reports on the 1828 Dover, New Hampshire, Strike
First Strike in Dover Account
First Strike
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University

Testimony by a Georgia Freedwoman before the Southern Claims Commission, March 22, 1873
Jacqueline Jones, Brandeis University

Saturday, March 27, 2004
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

States’ Rights and Constitutional Authority in the Twentieth-Century American South
With the Aura of Sophistication and Respectability: The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and its Use of Constitutional Discourse Against the Civil Rights Movement
Yasuhiro Katagiri, Tokai University (Japan)

University Admissions Policies and the Supreme Court: From Desegregation to Affirmative Action to the End of Racial Preferences
Brown v. Board and Higher Education: Federal Courts, Segregated Universities, and Undergraduate Enrollment, 1954-1964
Peter Wallenstein, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Adjusting to Change: Historically Black Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) after the Brown Decision
Leslie Miller-Bernal, Wells College, and Susan Gunn Pevar,Lincoln University

Affirmative Action at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Universities, 1960s to 2001
Marcia G. Synnott, University of South Carolina

3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

A Revolution in American Views of Chief Justice John Marshall: An Experiment in Teaching Historical Research to Undergraduates
Overview of the Marshall Project
Jon Alexander, Providence College

Race, Resistance, and Reconciliation: Japanese American Draft Resisters from World War II
Born in the U.S.A
Frank Chin, Independent Activist/Writer

Sunday, March 28, 2004
11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Student Power: A Revolution in Civil Rights Movements
The Politics of Rebellion: The Free Speech Movement and the Counter-Culture
Stefanie Beninato, Have Ph.D., Will Travel

University Student Contributions to Hispanic Political Movements, 1965-1975
Caroline Hoefferle, Wingate University

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