July Fourth to Juneteenth: Black Engagement with America’s First Principles

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel considers the work of canonical Black thinkers—including Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.—in (re)interpreting America’s founding principles.

Sub Unit

• Partner Associations / Eric Voegelin Society

Individual Presentations

• Frederick Douglass's Antislavery Constitution - Joseph R. Fornieri

• The Art of Association in the Thought of Washington and Du Bois - Gregory Collins, Yale University

• King’s Dream, The American Dream, and the Declaration of Independence - Micah Harris, Duke University

Chair

• Joseph R. Fornieri

Discussant

• James R. Stoner Louisiana State University