EVENT DETAILS

In conjunction with New-York Historical Society’s groundbreaking exhibition Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow, historian Manisha Sinha and journalist Brent Staples discuss the methods through which the South sought to reinstate slavery—including lynching, disenfranchisement, sharecropping, convict lease labor, and segregation—during the Jim Crow era, as well as how the African American population resisted.

Manisha Sinha is James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut and the author of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition. Brent Staples (moderator) writes for the New York Times editorial board.

LOCATION

The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024

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Through the generosity of Bernard and Irene Schwartz, the New-York Historical Society brings a wide array of extraordinary lectures and dynamic conversations to New York’s Upper West Side.