“Leaders make history,” C.L.R. James remarked, “but only such history as it is possible to make.”  Such wisdom matters as we now imagine new possibilities for freedom in the U.S.  Drawing on his new book, How Race Survived U.S. History, Roediger captures past moments when emancipation seemed imminent and assesses the weight of history on the future we can make.
Cosponsored by: Department of African American Studies, Department of History, Spurlock Museum