ABHM and WBHS Combine to Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2021

Clayborn Benson, Director of the Wisconsin Black Historical Society, and Dr. Robert S. Smith, Resident Historian at America’s Black Holocaust Museum,  converse about Dr. King’s travels to Milwaukee and Wisconsin. They also discuss his brilliant intellect and simple but not simplistic ways of articulating the call for civil rights.

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Learning from the Failure of Reconstruction

The riot at the Capitol was reminiscent of the overthrow of Reconstruction, which was accomplished by violent assaults on elected officials. Dr. Eric Foner, an expert on the Reconstruction era, shares his analysis.

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