A Three-Dimensional Look at Civil Rights History
Channel: AmbasciataUSA
Date: 2021-04-27

Antecedents of the Modern Rights Movement. The Early Days (pre-1955)

Lecture Series by Gail Milissa Grant

The series will focus on topics/issues such as generally unknown facts about the early civil rights movement (pre-1950s); an in-depth look at one community’s (St. Louis, MO) concerted and highly organized effort to eliminate Jim Crow practices during the first half of the 20th century;
and a current evaluation of the ‘state’ of Black America and the underpinnings of the Black Lives Matter movement.