Book Breaks with Peniel Joseph on Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution

 

Date & Time:  June 1, 2025, 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

 

Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution [Book]

The year 1963 opened with the centenary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The months that followed brought waves of racial terror, assassinations, mass protest, and police repression that shocked the world, inspired radicals and reformers, and forced the hands of moderate legislators. The nation was determined to imagine a new way forward. In Freedom Season, Peniel Joseph shows how the upheavals of 1963 planted the seeds for watershed civil rights legislation.

 

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