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New Scholarship of the Civil Rights Movement

Authors talked about new research on the twentieth century’s civil rights movement. Rich Rayburn read “Civil Rights Without Apology,” a… read more

Authors talked about new research on the twentieth century’s civil rights movement.

Rich Rayburn read “Civil Rights Without Apology,” a paper by Rudolph Byrd, founder of the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University, who was unable to attend. Hank Klibanoff is the co-author of The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, published by Vantage, which was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for history. The Cold Case Truth and Justice Project investigates unsolved racial murders that took place during the 60-year civil rights era in the South. Joseph Crespino is the author of In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton University Press, 2007). David Carter is the author of The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement: Civil Rights and the Johnson Administration, 1965-1968 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).

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  • Doug Shipman Executive Director Center For Civil and Human Rights Partnership
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Program ID:
287146-1
Category:
Public Affairs Event
Format:
Forum
Location:
Morrow, Georgia, United States
First Aired:
Jul 11, 2009 | 1:56pm EDT | C-SPAN 3

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  • Jul 11, 2009 | 1:56pm EDT | C-SPAN 3
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