Jim Crow's Last Stand: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Suburban North
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Lecture
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Abstract
Thomas J. Sugrue is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Drawing from his book, Professor Sugrue will discuss the largely unknown Northern battlegrounds where grassroots activists fought to end discrimination and segregation: the rapidly expanding postwar suburbs. While the conventional narratives of civil rights in America have focused on the heroic battles of the South, "Jim Crow's Last Stand" turns our focus North to recount the victories and defeats of those who fought to open suburbia to people of all races.
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Sugrue, Thomas, "Jim Crow's Last Stand: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Suburban North" (2024). Conferences and Lectures. 1605.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/hh_av_conferences/1605