Oct 14th 2020

Peniel E. Joseph on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

@ Chicago Humanities Festival

Online

Opening Wednesday, October 14th, from 7PM - 8PM

Register: https://www.chicagohumanities.org/events/peniel-joseph-malcolm-x-martin-luther-king/

Popular accounts of the 1960s-era civil rights movement are often reduced to the story of two extraordinary visionaries: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. In his book The Sword and the Shield Peniel E. Joseph argues that by focusing on their differing doctrines of self-defense versus nonviolence, we’ve been blind to the scope of their shared activism and communion. Join Joseph and Jonathan Eig, author of a forthcoming biography on King, for a conversation about how the legacies of these civil rights leaders informs the current struggle for racial justice.

This week’s programs presented with the support of Southwest Airlines.

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