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Hasan Jeffries grew up in Brooklyn in the 1980s. His childhood experiences of inequality inspired him to stand up for the rights of all.
“The interest is partly personal,” said Jeffries, an associate history professor at Ohio State University, who will host a virtual lecture on the civil rights movement at the Senator John Heinz History Center for Black History Month. “Seeing what was around me, and the levels of differences, I was trying to make sense of it at the time. That eventually led me to explore the civil rights movement and the Black power movement.”
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Julie Hinds
Detroit Free Press
There is a wonderful close-up photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking from a podium, holding on to it firmly as if he is leaning in to the enormous task ahead. of him.
In the new book “That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed the World,” that photo is paired with a portrait of Rochelle Riley’s grandson, Caleb, then 8, who is wearing a similar suit and tie and copying the civil rights icon s pose with an intensity beyond his years.
“When he did Martin Luther King and he just got right to the edge of the podium and did it, we were just like .,” says Riley, who wrote the text for the project, of the overwhelming emotion.