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DESCRIPTION:Before the Movement: Hidden Histories of Black Civil Rights\nDy
 lan Penningroth\, University of California Berkeley\nTuesday\, October 14 a
 t 4:45 p.m.\nVollum Lecture Hall\n\nWhat did law mean to African Americans 
 before the civil rights movement? Weaving together family interviews and ch
 urch records with long-forgotten documents found in county courthousebaseme
 nts\, Before the Movement tells a story about the changing meaning of civil
  rights\, and about what it meant to be Black in America. As far back as th
 e 1830s\, Black people built lives for themselves through mundane “rights o
 f everyday use” in a world that denied their constitutional rights. The thi
 ngs they did with law before the movement reshaped their families and commu
 nities. And it laid essential groundwork for the lawsuits and activism of t
 he 1950s and 60s. The result was a rich vision of Black life―a vision allie
 d with\, yet distinct from\, the freedom struggle.\n\nDylan Penningroth is 
 Alexander F. & May T. Morrison Professor of American History and Citizenshi
 p at the University of California\, Berkeley. A MacArthur Fellowship recipi
 ent\, he is the author of the award-winning book Before the Movement: Hidde
 n Histories of Black Civil Rights.\n\nSponsored by the Anthropology Departm
 ent\, the History Department\, the Political Science Department\, the Ameri
 can Studies Program\, the Office of Institutional Diversity\, and the Offic
 e of the Dean of Faculty.
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LOCATION:Vollum College Center\, Lecture Hall
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SUMMARY:Before the Movement: Hidden Histories of Black Civil Rights
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