Published October 2, 2023
Date: October 10, 2023
Time: 8:00 PM
Place: Online
Prof. Wolcott will be discussing her award winning book in the upcoming event sponsored by the Living New Deal, "Living In The Future - a discussion of interracial experiments and activism that influenced New Deal programs."
Prof. Victoria Wolcott, winner of the 2022 New Deal Book Award will be joined in conversation by Kimberley Johnson, NYU Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis. They will discuss Wolcott's deeply researched book, Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement, and the little-known histories of American utopian activism that inspired the Civil Rights Movement and the activists who dreamed of a better world and fought to build it.