Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author Thomas E. Ricks offers a new perspective on the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the tactics used to create and maintain an ethos of nonviolence, the attention to recruiting, and its legacy today. Distinguished historian Peniel Joseph offers a new interpretation of recent historical events such as the election of President Barack Obama, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, and a failed Capitol attack. Together the discuss battles for Civil Rights—past, present, and future. attention to recruiting, and its legacy today. Distinguished historian Peniel Joseph offers a new interpretation of recent historical events such as the election of President Barack Obama, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, and a failed Capitol attack. Together the discuss battles for Civil Rights—past, present, and future. attention to recruiting, and its legacy today. Distinguished historian Peniel Joseph offers a new interpretation of recent historical events such as the election of President Barack Obama, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, and a failed Capitol attack. Together the discuss battles for Civil Rights—past, present, and future. attention to recruiting, and its legacy today. Distinguished historian Peniel Joseph offers a new interpretation of recent historical events such as the election of President Barack Obama, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, and a failed Capitol attack. Together the discuss battles for Civil Rights—past, present, and future. Peniel E. Joseph, Thomas E. Ricks, The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century, Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

Moderator: Michelle Diggs, Texas Book Festival board member and director of environmental justice at 3M

Peniel E. Joseph, Thomas E. Ricks, The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century, Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968