The role of diasporic intellectual and activist networks in developing and spreading new schools of thought and innovative political strategies helps us think through the transnational nature of intellectual history and liberation politics, with a particular focus on women.

Tionne Parris will be presenting “We weren’t the beginning, we weren’t the end, we dropped our pebble on the beach.”: Legacies of Black radical women in the 20th Century

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She will explore the individual contributions of women like Louise Thompson Patterson, Claudia Jones, Shirley Graham DuBois and others, showing how their stories can be combined to provide a model of radical activism that has been underrepresented in our understanding of the histories of Black radicalism. She will also touch on their impact internationally and in the United Kingdom.

Tionne Parris is a PhD student at the University of Hertfordshire.

She is specialising in African American history, specifically the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Broadly, her research is focused on American society’s response to race-based political protests, as well as the impact of Communism within Black radical protest movements. Her current PhD research concerns the ideological connections between Black radical women of the early 20th Century and the Black Power Movement of the latter half of the 20th Century. This study is interested primarily in the transfer of tactics and ideology, as well as the interpersonal and intergenerational exchanges between actors. Tionne is also a project coordinator at the Young Historians Project – a non-profit organisation formed by young people encouraging the development of young historians of African and Caribbean heritage in Britain. They work on dynamic projects, documenting pivotal and often overlooked historical moments in Black British History. You can find her on Twitter and LinkedIn.