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Khalil Gibran Muhammad. Photo by Terrence Jennings; John Lewis. Photo courtesy of John Lewis

In Conversation: Civil Rights

Sunday, March 16, 2014

2–2 pm

Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

How does history animate and empower the social movements changing the world today? Civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis and Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, talk about the Civil Rights Movement, putting it into historical perspective and connecting it to a new generation of social media activism. Presented in celebration of the exhibition Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties.

Tickets are included in Museum general admission. Seating is first-come, first-served. To guarantee seating, advance purchase is recommended at www.museumtix.com. Free for Museum Members; to reserve, call the Membership Hotline at (718) 501-6326 or email Membership.

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In Conversation: Civil Rights

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