“Do everything!” That was the exhortation from Nell Painter that closed the Future of the African American Past conference, jointly sponsored by the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) and the American Historical Association, with...
Thursday, May 1906:45 - 08:30 PM
Opening Roundtable
The Long Struggle for Civil Rights and Black Freedom
Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and today will reflect on African American political activism in the last half-century, putting recent struggles in the broader context of black people’s long demand for equality, which began in the holds of slave ships and survived the nadir of segregation and disenfranchisement.
