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Lecture and Discussion with Lecia Brooks, Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL. Moderated by Yasmin Nasrudin, d.a.i. Tübingen.

Today, as in years past, women’s voices and perspectives are critical to understanding the struggle for civil and human rights. This talk will start with Fannie Lou Hamer who, born in 1917 in Mississippi as the youngest of 20 children in a family of sharecroppers, registered to vote at the age of 44 first. The roadblocks were immense. This simple act of exercising a fundamental right resulted in a loss of home, job, bodily harm and attempts on her life. Hamer persisted, kept pushing forward, and passed the baton to women like Ella Baker, the NAACP Field Secretary who organized the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); to Amelia Boynton, the Alabama voting rights activist who participated in the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March; and, recently, to LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund; Aimee Allison, founder of She the People; and to Stacey Abrams who successfully mobilized the vote in her home state of Georgia in the 2020 election. As black women continue to transform American society, they increasingly shape local, state and national politics.

Admission is free. Please register at www.dai-tuebingen.de/womens-history

Lecia Brooks is the chief of staff for the SPLC, where she provides counsel to senior leadership, assists with strategic planning and works with people from across the organization to ensure the SPLC’s success, whether it is achieving long-term goals or maintaining effective daily operations. Before her current role, Brooks served as the SPLC’s chief workplace transformation officer, where she supported leadership and staff efforts to build a culture of inclusiveness and ensure a continued focus on diversity and equity. Brooks also previously served as the SPLC’s outreach director, where she traveled across the U.S. and abroad to speak about hate and extremism. Earlier, she was director of the SPLC’s Civil Rights Memorial Center, an interpretive experience designed to provide visitors to the Civil Rights Memorial with a deeper understanding of the civil rights movement.

Yasmin Nasrudin is an activist-scholar based in Tübingen. She studied American Studies at the University of Tuebingen and Tufts University. Nasrudin wrote her bachelor’s thesis on the patriarchal structures in the Black Civil Rights Movement and #BlackLivesMatter movement. She is currently completing her master’s thesis on “Afrofuturistic Imaginations in Black Panther (2018)”. She is the Director of the EducationUSA Advising Center and Deputy Director of Intercultural Affairs at the German-American Institute Tuebingen. Since 2020 she has been part of the board of integration in Reutlingen with a focus on language development and education. She is the chairwoman of the Alliance Against Racism and Group-Based Discrimination, a founding member of Blacks Connected, a local initiative for Black people in Reutlingen, and a member of the Association of Elected Officials of African descent.

Organized by the U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt and the German-American Institute (d.a.i.) Tübingen

in cooperation with the U.S. Embassy Berlin,the U.S. Consulates General in Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Leipzig and Munich.

Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Tübingen (d.a.i.)

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