THE AFRICAN AMERICANS

MANY RIVERS TO CROSS

A MORE PERFECT UNION (1968–2013)

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 @ 9:00PM

After 1968, African Americans set out to build a bright new future on the foundation of the civil rights movement’s victories, but a growing class disparity threatened to split the black community in two. As hundreds of African Americans won political office across the country and the black middle class made unprecedented progress, larger economic and political forces isolated the black urban poor in the inner cities, vulnerable to new social ills and an epidemic of incarceration.

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