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Juan Williams on the Rise of the America’s Second Civil Rights Movement
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Juan Williams on the Rise of the America’s Second Civil Rights Movement
New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie joins award-winning journalist Juan Williams for a conversation on Williams’ new book, New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement, exploring the emergence of a new civil rights era—from the 2008 election of President Obama to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Thomas Donnelly, chief scholar at the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Resources
Juan Williams, New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement (2025)
Jamelle Bouie, “Discussing Trayvon Martin, Obama Embraces his Blackness,” The American Prospect (July 19, 2013)
Jamelle Bouie, opinion columnist, The New York Times
Civil Rights Movement
Reconstruction
Thomas Ricks, Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 (2022)
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Live at the National Constitution Center
Live constitutional conversations and debates featuring leading historians, journalists, scholars, and public officials hosted at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and across America. To watch National Constitution Center Town Halls live, check out our schedule of upcoming programs at constitutioncenter.org/townhall. Register through Zoom to ask your constitutional questions in the Q&A or watch live on YouTube at YouTube.com/ConstitutionCenter.
