From the New Deal to the 1990s, Dona Cooper Hamilton and Charles V. Hamilton demonstrate the many ways in which the civil rights movement fought not only racial segregation and discrimination but also to support social and economic justice for all Americans.  From the NRA and WPA to the Great Society and the War on Poverty, through the NAACP, National Urban League, A. Philip Randolph, the Congressional Black Caucus, Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund, and many others, the Hamiltons chart changing strategies and describe the often fierce battles that civil rights groups fought—and are fighting—over this "dual agenda."

Cosponsored by: School of Social Work, Department of History, Department of Human and Community Development, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Afro-American Studies and Research Program, University Library, Women's Studies Program, African-American Cultural Program, Urban League of Champaign Country