Racial Struggles in the Northeast, from Jackie Robinson to Deval Patrick
Friends of Madison Library host a NH Humanities program presented by Jason Sokol on Thursday, January 19 at 7 pm via Zoom.
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From Brooklyn to Boston, from World War II to the present, Jason Sokol traces the modern history of race and politics in the Northeast. Why did white fans come out to support Jackie Robinson as he broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947 even as Brooklyn’s blacks were shunted into segregated neighborhoods? How was African-American politician Ed Brooke of Massachusetts, who won a Senate seat in 1966, undone by the resistance to desegregation busing in Boston? Is the Northeast’s history a microcosm of America as a whole: outwardly democratic, but inwardly conflicted over race?
All are welcome.
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