Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Date/Time: Sept. 9, 2021 | 4:30pm

Location: Case Western Reserve University, Clark Hall – Room 206

Presenter: Kate Masur, Department of History, Northwest University

Description: This lecture, drawn from Professor Kate Masur’s new book, will discuss the broad-based northern movement for racial equality before the Civil War and how it shaped national politics and, ultimately, the Constitution. She’ll devote special attention to developments in Ohio, where the movement was particularly successful.

For more information, please visit CWRU’s website.

This program is presented by the CWRU Department of History, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, the CWRU Department of Sociology, and the Western Reserve Historical Society.