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Friday, January 19, 2024
All Day
Professor Hasan Jeffries, Ph.D., and Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site President & CEO Kerry Sautner explore the Civil Rights Movement and modern cases for civil liberties in prisons. This program delves into two pivotal explorations of this topic — Civil Rights Leaders who were imprisoned, and incarcerated individuals as civil rights champions — examining how acts of dissent and the consequences of imprisonment have shaped historical and contemporary efforts for justice and equality.