- Royce Fellowship
Tyler
Whitmire
Concentration
History
Award Year
2007
Tyler investigated the life of A.J. Muste, an American nonviolent activist whose long life enabled him to be involved in and organize movements from protests of the first World War to opposition to the Vietnam War fifty years later. Tyler focused on Muste's attempts to influence the development of African affairs and African decolonization in the late 1950s through the 1970s. Tyler also gathered background research on activists who worked with Muste and who worked in Africa, which culminated in an interview with one of Muste's associates, the nonviolent activist George Houser. Additionally, she explored over 7000 pages of files the FBI had kept on Muste throughout his life.