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Event Lectures and Symposia Panel: Race in America

Date and Location

  • When: Saturday, August 31, 2019

    6:45 pm - 7:45 pm EDT

  • Where: Walter E. Washington Convention Center - Ballroom A (Level 3, South Building)

    801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC 20001

  • Stage: Understanding Our World

Part of National Book Festival ; 2019 National Book Festival

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. discusses "Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow" (Penguin), Judge Richard Gergel discusses "Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring" (Sarah Crichton) and Steve Luxenberg discusses "Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation" (Norton) in a panel conversation moderated by Eric Deggans.

The Understanding Our World Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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