Wednesday, March 27 @ 6:00 pm
Note: This is an online-only event. Please register ahead of time.
The National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites is hosting a Women’s History Month Event via Zoom on Wednesday, March 27 at 6pm ET. This event is free and open to all! The event will be recorded and later posted to our YouTube channel.
Ladies Learning Labor: Domestic Service Education in the Early 20th Century
Dr. Camesha Scruggs is an Assistant Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut. Camesha received a doctorate in history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a BA and MA in history from Texas Southern University. Her research fields and teaching interests are 20th century US, African American, and Public History.
Her dissertation project, “We Poor Negro Women Have to Work: Black Women Domestic Workers in Texas, 1900-1940” examine the lived experiences of Texas African American women domestic servants in the early twentieth century and how interventions from social, civic, government, secondary and higher education institutions impact the occupation.
She served on the executive boards of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites. She is a project stakeholder for the Du Bois Freedom Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. She performs volunteer work for various community preservation initiatives, bringing stories to broader audiences. She continues to connect with local historical societies, sites and organizations, ensuring diverse narratives are preserved and presented.
She is a recent contributor to “It’s Our Movement Now: Black Women’s Politics and the 1977 National Women’s Conference” and “Forging Freedom in W.E.B. Du Bois’s Twilight Years.” Her current manuscript project is a further examination of Historically Black College and Universities, Young Women’s Christian Association and the Works Progress Administration’s role in domestic service training during the New Deal Era.
This event is free and open to the public.
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