In honor of Mia Bay winnin' both Columbia University Libraries' Bancroft Prize & the Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for "Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance from Harvard University Press" (among many other well-deserved honors!), we are proud to rebroadcast this very meaningful Social Justice Power Hour discussin' her powerful book, a riveting, character-rich account of racial segregation in America that reveals just how central travel restrictions were to the creation of Jim Crow laws~ & why “traveling Black” has been at the heart of the quest for racial justice ever since.
Mia is also the author of "To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells" & "The White Image in the Black Mind", & "Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, With Documents" & Professor of American History at University of Pennsylvania .
Join Mia & our own BRCSJ Chief Activist Robt Seda-Schreiber in virtual community-buildin' conversation
7pm ET/4 PT
Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice virtual HQ
http://facebook.com/rustincenter
Please consider donatin' whatever is within your means & within your hearts to help us create that extraordinary new home our community needs & deserves
IT'S HARD TO BE A SAFE-SPACE WITHOUT AN ACTUAL SPACE
paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/3348328
& hopefully be moved to watch full broadcasts available on the Power Hour Playlist
https://www.facebook.com/RustinCenter/videos/
Can't Stop, Won't Stop~
Every freakin' weeknite
So as always...
Stay tuned, true believers!