In Conversation: Civil Rights

How does history animate and empower the social movements changing the world today? Civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis and Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, talk about the Civil Rights Movement, putting it into historical perspective and connecting it to a new generation of social media activism. Presented in celebration of the exhibition Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties.

This event took place at the Brooklyn Museum Sunday, March 16, 2014

Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties
March 7–July 6, 2014
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/witness_civil_rights/