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The HistoryMakers is the largest collection of videotaped oral history interviews with African Americans. To commemorate its 20th anniversary, founder and president Julieanna Richardson desc…

Authors talked about their books on the history of the civil rights movement. In the year marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, they explored the political and social cli…

Juan Williams moderated a discussion of civil rights activism in the 1960s and the efforts by James Meredith and lawyers to integrate the University of Mississippi. They talked about their p…

Civil rights scholars and leaders talked about the historical significance of the 14th Amendment and recent proposals to repeal it. They also responded to questions from the audience. This p…

A panel discussion was held on the legacy of Thurgood Marshall, the first black U.S. Supreme Court Justice. The panelists speculated on what Justice Marshall’s opinions would be on current i…

Mr. Williams discussed his biography, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, published by Times Books. He described the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall as an architect …

Juan Williams talked about President Truman’s pivotal role in desegregating the military. This was the concluding keynote address of the “Freedom to Serve--Then and Now” forum honoring t…

A panel discussion was held on the argument that desegregation would impair military efficiency and unit cohesion and why President Truman chose to issuing an executive order desegregating t…

Juan Williams talked about his life, work, and career. He discussed civil rights and race relations in the U.S., culminating in the election of President Barack Obama. He responded to teleph…

The panel consisted of journalists who had covered the Civil Rights Movement. They focused on the decision makers during the Civil Rights Movement. The people that they talked about were pol…

As part of the 2006 symposium series hosted by the Black Leadership Forum, participants talked on the topic “What Would Our Ancestors Think of Us?” about how past leaders might have responde…

Participants talked about media portrayals of the black community, the role of the black media, biases in editorial decision-making, the experiences of black journalists, and depictions of s…

Juan Williams was interviewed about his book Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure that Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do about It, published …

Mary Frances Berry was interviewed about her book My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations, published by Knopf. Callie House, an ex-slave, was a wash…

After an introduction by Chris Lehmann, deputy editor for Washington Post’s Book World, Juan Williams talked about his book, This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious E…

Juan Williams talked about his book My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience, published by Sterling. The book is part of the Voices of Civil Rights project, a col…

The Harlem Book Fair on Saturday, July 24 was located on West 135th Street between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard in New York City. Panel discussions were held in the La…

The forum participants discussed the importance of the printed word in shaping popular notions of slavery. They talked about their work in academia and journalism and criticized current po…

Mr. Williams talked about his book Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary. The book examined the life of Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court, and hi…

American University School of Communications hosted a forum titled “Malcolm X, the Movie: Cinema as History.” Media figures spoke on the 1992 Warner Brothers movie “Malcolm X,” focusing on t…