University of Illinois Professor Examines the Overlooked Role of Food in Civil Rights Struggle
August 31, 2023
August 31, 2023
CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, Aug. 31 (TNSres) -- The University of Illinois System Urbana-Champaign campus issued the following news release on Aug. 30, 2023:
Food was used as both a weapon and a tool of resistance in the Mississippi Delta during the Civil Rights Movement.
Bobby J. Smith II, an African American studies professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, looked at how the Civil Rights Movement expanded to include struggles around food in his book "Foo . . .
Food was used as both a weapon and a tool of resistance in the Mississippi Delta during the Civil Rights Movement.
Bobby J. Smith II, an African American studies professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, looked at how the Civil Rights Movement expanded to include struggles around food in his book "Foo . . .