Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs: The Fight for Freedom and Democracy in Ohio

This lecture challenges the familiar story that places the civil rights movement in the South and centers it on a few national leaders. Focusing on Ohio, it examines how the state constructed its own color line—and how African Americans fought to dismantle it, from abolitionist organizing in Akron to struggles for police accountability in Cincinnati. By uncovering this longer history, the talk highlights why fighting for freedom and democracy in Ohio still matters today.

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