Presented By: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
Speaker Event - Leah Wright Rigueur - Between the Lines: The Republican Party at a Racial Crossroads
Leah Wright Rigueur
Join Leah Wright Rigueur as she provides a new understanding of the interactions between African Americans and the Republican Party, and the seemingly incongruous intersection of civil rights and American conservatism.
Historian Leah Wright Rigueur will also examine the internal crisis and chaos faced by African American members of the Republican Party in the mid-1970s, as they battled among themselves to gain power and influence in a rapidly changing GOP.
Leah Wright Rigueur is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is the author of The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power.
Free Admission. Free Parking. Reception follows program.
Historian Leah Wright Rigueur will also examine the internal crisis and chaos faced by African American members of the Republican Party in the mid-1970s, as they battled among themselves to gain power and influence in a rapidly changing GOP.
Leah Wright Rigueur is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is the author of The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power.
Free Admission. Free Parking. Reception follows program.
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