After the horrible tragedy that occurred in Charleston on the night of June 17, Chad Williams, the chair of the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University began to start tweeting #CharlestonSyllabus, along with other colleagues from the African American Intellectual History Society, to begin a conversation to educate and examine racial discourse in America.
What quickly emerged in just two days was a diverse community of people from a variety of professions, with divergent levels of historical expertise, all sharing a desire to educate, learn and challenge the prevailing discourse about race stemming from the Charleston tragedy.
Here is the full list of Charleston Syllabus and there will soon be a website to refer to this valuable list of resources. To get started, here is a list of the some of the basic overview resources available through the Newburgh Free Library.