Jim Crow North/Black Freedom Struggle Outside the South

This month we will be joined in person at the Schomburg Center by Ujju Aggarwal, Say Burgin, Laura Hill, and Shannon King for a conversation about histories of Black freedom struggles in the North. Aggarwal and King will discuss the Black freedom movement in New York, focusing on education and policing respectively, while Burgin examines the white fight for Black power in Detroit, and Hill focuses on the Black freedom struggle in Rochester. Thinking historically across these different urban contexts, we can see how people organized in the Jim Crow North, and what that teaches us about the unfinished business of the Black freedom struggle in New York today.