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NO RIGHT TO AN HONEST LIVING: Book Reading & Discussion
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Museum of African American History: Boston Campus 46 Joy St Boston, MA 02114Dates & Times
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Join the Museum of African American History for a book reading with Bancroft Prize winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Historian, Jaqueline Jones, PhD. followed by a discussion with award winning author and Historian Kerri Greenidge, PhD.
In the decades before the Civil War, Boston gained a well-earned reputation as the nation’s heart of radical abolitionism. Impassioned anti-slavery activists delivered fiery speeches from the pulpits of Black churches and the podiums at Tremont Temple and Faneuil Hall. Hundreds of Black freedom-seekers settled in the city that touted itself as a refuge from southern prejudice and brutality. By 1860, the Commonwealth’s Black men could vote, Blacks and whites could intermarry, and Black children could attend integrated schools.
In NO RIGHT TO AN HONEST LIVING: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era award-winning historian Jacqueline Jones shatters Boston’s reputation as a uniquely enlightened city in the years surrounding southern emancipation. Before, during, and after the Civil War, Jones finds, Boston’s Black workers were barred from the skilled trades, factory work, and public-works projects. Most Black workers were confined to menial labor; for them, finding and keeping a job amounted to an ongoing, near-daily challenge.
A book signing to follow directly after the program.
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