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Date

Dec 22 2023
Expired!

Time

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Cost

$10
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America’s Black Capital w/ Jeffrey Ogbar

Atlanta is home to some of America’s most prominent Black politicians, artists, businesses, and HBCUs. Yet, in 1861, Atlanta was a final contender to be the capital of the Confederacy. Sixty years later, long after the Civil War, it was the Ku Klux Klan’s sacred “Imperial City.” America’s Black Capital chronicles how a center of Black excellence emerged amid virulent expressions of white nationalism, as African Americans pushed back against Confederate ideology to create an extraordinary locus of achievement. What drove them, historian Jeffrey Ogbar shows, was the belief that Black uplift would be best advanced by forging Black institutions. America’s Black Capital is an inspiring story of Black achievement against all odds, with effects that reached far beyond Georgia, shaping the nation’s popular culture, public policy, and politics. 

Location

Mark Twain House & Museum
351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT
Mark Twain House & Museum

Organizer

Mark Twain House & Museum
Website
https://marktwainhouse.org/