Presented by the First Amendment Museum in Augusta, Maine
February 18, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
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Join us as we speak to Hasan Kwame Jeffries for his presentation “Bending the Arc of the Moral Universe: African Americans’ Struggle to Live Their Freedoms.”
Hasan Kwame Jeffries is an associate professor of history at The Ohio State University where he’s taught graduate and undergraduate seminars on the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, and surveys in African American and American history.
He’s the author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt and is currently working on his next book, In the Shadow of Civil Rights. Hasan also hosts the podcast Teaching Hard History: American Slavery, and he’s been involved as a consultant on any number of museum projects. Check out his Ted Talks presentation, Why we must confront the painful parts of US history.
This event will be hosted both via Zoom and Facebook Live. Participants are encouraged to ask questions at the end of Jeffries’ presentation.
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpfivqTwtH915d8vagEem3P95Dixsxiat
Facebook Live Event: Link here
