Mary Frances Berry and Jeanne Theoharis discuss the history of organized protest in America, shedding light on its history and the many lessons we can draw for today, with Keisha N. Blain.

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BUY THE BOOKS

Mary Frances Berry: History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times (https://bookshop.org/a/3319/978080705...)

Jeanne Theoharis: A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History (https://bookshop.org/a/3319/978080706...)

Keisha N. Blain: Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (https://bookshop.org/a/3319/978081222...)

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ABOUT THE PANELISTS

Mary Frances Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches the History of American Law, and the History of Law and Social Policy. She also advises students in African American History and Legal History. She is the author of twelve books including "History Teaches Us to Resist" and "Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich: Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy".

Jeanne Theoharis is the author or co-author of nine books and numerous articles on the civil rights and Black Power movements, the politics of race and education, social welfare and civil rights in post-9/11 America. Her biography "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" won a 2014 NAACP Image Award, the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians, and was named one of the 25 Best Academic Titles of 2013 by Choice. Her book "A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History" won the 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for Nonfiction.

Keisha N. Blain is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. She is an historian of the 20th century United States with broad interdisciplinary interests and specializations in African American History, the modern African Diaspora, and Women's and Gender Studies. Her research interests include black internationalism, radical politics, and global feminisms. She is the author of "Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom" and "Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Vision of America", which will be published through Beacon in 2021.