One Book, One Bedford - Professor Dan Breen - The Civil Rights Era

In MARCH: BOOK ONE, John Lewis describes the events that led him, at grave personal risk, to oppose the murderous cruelty of southern segregation in the 1950s. This lecture will offer a glimpse into the immensity of the obstacles Lewis and others would face as they took that system on, not only by describing the system of Jim Crow into which Lewis was born but also by tracing some of the earlier efforts by African-Americans to challenge it. Professor Breen is a regular lecturer at BFPL on a wide range of topics in history.Dr. Daniel Breen is a professor of Legal Studies at Brandeis University. He has led many history discussion series at BFPL, including series on World War I, World War II, the Great Depression, the American Revolution, Prohibition, Supreme Court cases, and the Civil War. Dr. Breen has both a JD from the University of Georgia and a PhD in History from Boston College.