About this Event
📍 Location: Exact address given in confirmation email
🧠 Lecture: "How to Fund a Movement: Black Freedom Movement 1955–1975"
🎤 Speaker: Dr. Richard D. Benson II
Join us for an engaging evening as Dr. Richard Benson explores how Black activists during the Black Freedom Movement era (1955–1975) navigated shifting sources of funding to organize, build power, and strengthen their communities.
Discover the economic and political forces that shaped organizations such as the Nation of Islam, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and how financial realities influenced their strategies and decisions.
The lecture will spotlight pivotal moments like James Forman’s 1969 “Black Manifesto” and its call for reparations, as well as the groundbreaking work of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization in New York City during the 1970s. Connecting local community efforts to broader Pan-African and global freedom movements, this talk offers powerful stories and key insights into the vital link between economics and Black liberation.
Dr. Benson is Associate Professor of the Black Radical Tradition in Education and a leading historian of the Black Freedom Movement, Black radicalism, and transnational social movements.
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Agenda
6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.
6:55 PM – Host introduction
7:00 PM – Lecture begins
7:45 PM – Audience Q&A
8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round
8:30 PM – Wrap up.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lower East Side, Address found in email confirmation, New York, United States
USD 41.32
