EVENTS
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS, WILLIAM S. BOYD SCHOOL OF LAW
IN PERSON EVENT
February 11, 2025, 3-4:30pm ET
Philip Pro Lecture in Legal History at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
IN PERSON EVENT
February 24, 2025
The Ryland Lecture at the University of Richmond. More details to come.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
IN PERSON EVENT
March 31, 2025
UCLA Legal History workshop. More details to come.
UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI
VIRTUAL EVENT
September 30, 2025
Lecture at University of Helsinki Legal History Series. More details to come.
PAST EVENTS
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY HISTORY DEPARTMENT
IN PERSON EVENT
October 2, 2024
Lecture and pro-seminar.
IN PERSON EVENT
October 5, 2024, 12:30-1:30pm CT
1213 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL
CENTRE FOR GLOBAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
VIRTUAL EVENT
September 16, 2024
Book discussion of “Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights.”
NINTH CIRCUIT JUDICIAL CONFERENCE
IN PERSON PANEL
Panel, "Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act," at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. Watch the video here.
CITY OF WEST HOLLYWOOD
June 18, 2024, 6:30pm PT
West Hollywood City Council Chambers, 625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
Discussion of "Before the Movement" followed by Q&A and book signing at the City of West Hollywood's Juneteenth commemoration.
THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY
May 26, 2024, 2pm ET
Book Breaks is a weekly interview series with historians held every Sunday at 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PT) on Zoom. Join us as our hosts interview renowned scholar, Dylan Penningroth and discuss “Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights."
May 5, 2024, 3-4:30pm ET
Book conversation with Dr. Fred Knight, Morehouse College.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, HISTORY DEPARTMENT
Book discussion of “Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights,” at The Black World Seminar, History Department, Johns Hopkins University.
COMMONWEALTH CLUB
February 22, 2024, 5:30-6:30pm PT
110 The Embarcadero, Toni Rembe Rock Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
Join us as Dylan Penningroth, a MacArthur "genius grant" recipient, challenges the accepted understandings of Black history and puts Black people back at the center of their story in his book “Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights.” He will be in conversation with LaDoris Cordell (author of "Her Honor: My Life on the Bench . . . What Works, What’s Broken, and How to Change It")
AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION
VIRTUAL EVENT: WEBINAR
February 26, 2024, 11am PT/2pm ET
Please join the ABF Fellows for a National Webinar presentation by ABF Affiliated Research Professor, Dylan C. Penningroth. In this webinar, acclaimed historian Dylan C. Penningroth will present from his new book, “Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights.”
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR LEGAL HISTORY
IN PERSON EVENT
October 24-26, 2024
Hyatt Regency-Room Seacliff D, San Francisco, CA
SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE, NYPL
VIRTUAL EVENT: CONVERSATIONS IN BLACK FREEDOM STUDIES
February 1, 2024, 6:30-8:00 pm ET
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional in the landmark case Brown vs. Board of Education. Authors Matthew F. Delmont (Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad), Margaret A. Burnham (By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners), Dylan C. Penningroth (Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights), and Cookie Woolner (The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall) look at the Black struggle in the decades before this historic verdict.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL
IN PERSON EVENT: “HIDDEN HISTORIES OF BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS"
February 13, 2024, 12-1:15 pm ET
Dylan C. Penningroth, a professor of law and history at the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss his new book Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights. Dean Risa Goluboff will give welcoming remarks. Lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 11:45 a.m. Public parking will be available in the D2 lots that surround the Law School.
MUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
IN PERSON EVENT: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
January 15, 2024, 2-4:30 pm PT
Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco
UC BERKELEY SOCIAL SCIENCE MATRIX
IN-PERSON EVENT: AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS
November 14, 2023, 12-1:30pm PT
Please join us 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.
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR LEGAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL
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
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.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO OF LAW SCHOOL
EARL B. DICKERSON CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE
October 30, 2020
Earl B. Dickerson Centennial Conference: "Community and National Leader, "The Dickerson Centennial celebrates a historic milestone for our institution: the 100th anniversary of the graduation of one of our most distinguished alumni, Earl B. Dickerson.
SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
PANEL: "WHO IS BLACK AMERICA? THE FUTURE OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN PAST."
May 20, 2016