24 March 2009

Is the Civil Rights Movement Finished?

March 25 webchat with the State Department’s Michael Jay Friedman

Now that the United States has elected its first African-American president, is the civil rights movement finally finished? Join Dr. Michael Jay Friedman on March 25, at 8 a.m. EDT (12:00 GMT), for a frank discussion on how the U.S. civil rights movement began and what the Obama administration means to its present and future direction.

Michael Jay Friedman is the principal author of Free At Last: The U.S. Civil Rights Movement, published by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs and downloadable at http://www.america.gov/publications/books-content/free-at-last.html and at http://www.america.gov/media/pdf/books/free-at-last.pdf (PDF, 3.6MB). He is the bureau’s division chief for print publications and holds a Ph.D. in U.S. political and diplomatic history.

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The transcript of this webchat will be available on America.gov’s webchat page, where information about upcoming webchats is also available.