Richard Rothstein & the Color of Law
Richard Rothstein & The Color of Law
Saturday January 20, 2018 | 2-4 PM | Free
Richmond City Council Chambers 440 Civic Center Plaza Richmond, Ca 94804
The Richmond Museum of History and the Richmond Public Library are proud to present renowned author Richard Rothstein who will be speaking about his recent book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Liveright, May 2017).
Although this event is FREE, we respectfully request you RSVP so we can anticipate the crowd size for this event.
Please RSVP here?https://www.eventbrite.com/e/richard-rothstein-the-color-of-law-tickets-41720558313
In?The Color of Law?(published by Liveright in May 2017), Richard Rothstein argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America?the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities and has contributed to so much recent social strife?is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels.
For? more information, contact Angela Cox at (510) 620-5516 or melinda@richmondmuseum.org.
Richard Rothstein?is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley).
