Center for American Progress
Thursday, August 7, 2014
On Thursday, July 10, the Center for American Progress’ Poverty to Prosperity and Progress 2050 teams, along with Generation Progress, will host an intergenerational conversation among civil rights activists about the progress and the hard-learned lessons about civil rights and economic justice from the past 50 years and the work needed in the next 50 years.
The landmark Civil Rights Act was signed into law on July 2, 1964. Just one year after the Civil Rights Act passed, Martin Luther King Jr. famously remarked, “What does it profit a man to be able to eat at an integrated lunch counter if he doesn’t have enough money to buy a hamburger?” Activists have always understood the movement to be about social and economic justice. Yet despite great progress, people of color still face disproportionately high rates of economic disadvantage. Join us as we explore how to build power and address civil rights and economic security.
WHO:
Opening remarks:
Neera Tanden, President, Center for American Progress
Featured speakers:
Julian Bond, Chairman Emeritus, NAACP
Carmen Berkley, Civil, Human, and Women’s Rights Director, AFL-CIO
Nikki Lewis, Executive Director, DC Jobs with Justice
Lisa Hasegawa, Executive Director, National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development
Moderator:
Melissa Boteach, Vice President of Half in Ten and Poverty to Prosperity, Center for American Progress
WHEN:
Thursday, July 10, 2014
10:00 a.m. ET – 11:00 a.m. ET
WHERE:
Center for American Progress
1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20005
