Hosting Org: Patchogue-Medford Library
Date: February 24, 2018
Time: 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Patchogue-Medford Library, Meeting room A and B, 54-60 E Main St, Patchogue, NY 11772
Event Link: Racism and Civil Rights on Long Island, a Brief History (1950-1980)
Meet Civil Rights pioneers who will describe their struggles and accomplishments to establish civil rights in the United States' first suburb.
Moderated by Paul Arfin, author of Unfinished Business: Social Action In Suburbia. Panelists include Janet Hanson, Frances Brisbane, Aldustus Jordan and Marvin Coulson. For more information on panelist, please view event page.
We hope you can join us in this remembrance, reflection and exploration of this powerful historical period of struggle, confrontation and brotherhood/sisterhood, where Long Islanders challenged resistant public attitudes, institutions, and public policies resistant to change.
The civil rights activists battled discrimination in housing and employment; police brutality; poverty, unequal educational opportunities and other manifestations of institutional racism in a Long Island designed to be a white enclave.
Contact
For more information, please view event page or call (631) 654-4700.