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New York’s Unfinished Struggle for Racial Justice: Civil Rights in the 20th Century and Beyond

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, University of Pennsylvania Professor of History and Sociology Thomas J. Sugrue, author of Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (2008), will discuss the movements for racial justice that originated in greater New York. Sugrue brings to light the histories of New York activists, among them Ella Baker, Constance Baker Motley, Adam Clayton Powell, and Malcolm X, who fought segregation and discrimination in workplaces, restaurants, schools, and housing in places as diverse as Harlem, eastern Queens, Brownsville, New Rochelle, and Hempstead.











When: Tue., Feb. 25, 2014 at 6:30 pm
Where: Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Ave.
212-534-1672
Price: $16
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On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, University of Pennsylvania Professor of History and Sociology Thomas J. Sugrue, author of Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (2008), will discuss the movements for racial justice that originated in greater New York. Sugrue brings to light the histories of New York activists, among them Ella Baker, Constance Baker Motley, Adam Clayton Powell, and Malcolm X, who fought segregation and discrimination in workplaces, restaurants, schools, and housing in places as diverse as Harlem, eastern Queens, Brownsville, New Rochelle, and Hempstead.

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