Lecture: “Did Dorothy Day Fail the Black Freedom Movement?”

In his book, Damned Whiteness: How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement, David Evans claims that the Black freedom movement is the best framework to understand the impact of white allies. Black freedom fighters inherited a tradition that combined varied economic opportunities, political philosophies, and religious beliefs to achieve Black freedom. Dorothy Day’s opposition to racial segregation and anti-Black oppression appeared to support Black freedom efforts, but her commitment to interracialism and anti-communism misaligned the Catholic Worker movement from the Black freedom movement.

Lecture by David Evans, PhD, Eastern Mennonite Seminary
Respondent: Kevin Ahern, PhD, Manhattan University
Moderator: Michael Peppard, PhD, Fordham University