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How the Streets Were Made: Housing Segregation and Black Life in America
The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a lecture about housing segregation and Black life in the United States. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book In How the Streets Were Made: Housing Segregation and Black […]
Walk with Me: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Challenge to America
The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a lecture about famed civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book Kate Clifford Larson brings a stirring reappraisal of Fannie Lou Hamer’s life […]
The Ledger and the Chain
The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a lecture about the domestic slave trade in the United States—sometimes referred to as the second Middle Passage. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book The terrors inflicted upon […]