Alex Ashkin Speaks with Historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, Part 1

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The author of the book, “Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston,” IU associate professor Myers has focused on the stories of black women who fought — and often gained — their freedom in the years prior to the US Civil War. She hopes to explode the myth that freedom and civil rights come about because kindly white people grant them. Myers argues people of color work long and hard in the battle for advancement in a racist society. Part 2 of the conversation airs tomorrow, Friday, February 5, 2021, at 11:30am

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