Louise Langdon, Garveyism, and the Transformative Power of Black Canadian History in a Moment of Global Crisis

Join the Department of History for its Annual Black History Month Lecture featuring historian Erik McDuffie on Feb. 28!

McDuffie, an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) will discuss his recently published book, The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom.

This talk discusses the diasporic journey, politics, and legacy of Louise (Langdon) Little, the Grenada-born grassroots Garveyite activist best known as the mother of Malcolm X, whose time in Montreal was critical to shaping her Black internationalism. More broadly, her story and involvement in the transnational Garvey movement speaks to the transformative power of Black Canadian history for advancing global Black freedom, then and now.