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EVENTS

SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE

VIRTUAL EVENT: CONVERSATIONS IN BLACK FREEDOM STUDIES

February 1, 2024, 6:30-8:00 pm ET

Link to register coming soon.

COMMONWEALTH CLUB 

IN PERSON & VIRTUAL EVENT

February 22, 2024, 5:30-6:30 pm PT

110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 

PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY 

IN PERSON & VIRTUAL EVENT

April 21, 2024, 3pm ET

65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, New Jersey 

Link to register coming soon. 

PAST EVENTS

UC BERKELEY SOCIAL SCIENCE MATRIX

IN-PERSON EVENT​: AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS 

November 14, 2023, 12-1:30pm PT

Please join us in-person on November 14 for an Author Meets Critics panel on Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, by Dylan Penningroth, Professor of Law and Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History at UC Berkeley, and Associate Dean, Program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy / Legal Studies at Berkeley Law. Professor Penningroth will be joined in conversation by Ula Yvette Taylor, Professor and 1960 Chair of Undergraduate Education in the UC Berkeley Department of African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies; and Eric Schickler, Professor, Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Endowed Chair in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley. The panel will be moderated by Waldo E. Martin Jr., the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History and Citizenship at UC Berkeley.

KQED FORUM

INTERVIEW WITH ALEXIS MADRIGAL

October 30, 2023, 9:06-9:58am PT


AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR LEGAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL

IN PERSON: PLENARY ADDRESS

October 27, 2023, 5:15-6:30pm ET


CITY LIGHTS BOOKS

VIRTUAL EVENT​:

DYLAN C. PENNINGROTH IN CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD THOMPSON FORD  

October 11, 2023, 6pm PST

City Lights and Liveright Books celebrate the publication of Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights – by Dylan C. Penningroth – published by Liveright Books

BOOK PASSAGE - SF FERRY BUILDING

IN-PERSON EVENT​:

DYLAN C. PENNINGROTH IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN DELAY 

October 17, 2023, 5pm PT

NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER

VIRTUAL EVENT: PANEL DISCUSSION

October 5, 2023, 12pm ET

Prize-winning historians Kate Masur, author of Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction, and Dylan Penningroth, author of the new book Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, explore the central role of African Americans in the struggle for justice and equality long before the social movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.

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