Thomas Sugrue gives keynote presentation at WSU’s Van Dusen Forum on Urban Issues

Author, historian, and teacher Thomas Sugrue will be presenting at Wayne State University’s Van Dusen Forum on Urban Issues.Excerpt:Thomas Sugrue, author, historian and educator will deliver the keynote
presentation for WSU’s Van Dusen Forum on Urban Issues on Friday,
February 27 from 9 – 11 am at the Partrich Auditorium in the Law School
at WSU. A book sale and signing will follow the lecture. Sugrue’s
latest book, “Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil
Rights in the North” chronicles the struggle for racial equality in the
north from Illinois to New York and how it differed from the struggles
in the South. He tells the stories of the forgotten women and men who
fought for racial justice in the North and shifts the story from
Montgomery and Selma to Harlem, Levittown and Detroit.See the event listing here.