The UNC Center for Civil Rights is excited to present “Equal Protection’s Grand Promise and Betrayals: Reconstruction, Plessy to Bakke and Beyond: Is There a Way Forward?” The symposium will explore the origins, present status, and the future promise of the Equal Protection Clause. Speakers and panelists will … Continued

Professor Foner is on the country’s preeminent historians of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. He has authored more than twenty books, including the magisterial text, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 (1988), and most recently, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and … Continued