Civil Rights Issues: Then and Now

In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s June 1963 speech on civil rights, this special panel discussion explores civil rights issues in the 1960s and today. Mark Whitaker, CBS Sunday Morning contributor and author of Saying it Loud: 1966 - The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement, moderates a conversation with Jonathan Eig, author of the new biography King: A Life; Judge Nancy Gertner (ret.), senior lecturer on law at Harvard Law School; David Greenberg, professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University; and Traci Parker, professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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