John Payton on "Race, Law and Politics in America: Have we become a post-racial society?"

John A. Payton, one of the nation's top lawyers and a prominent African-American civil rights attorney, was appointed as the sixth president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in 2008. His address will start with a review of what happened in the United States during the post-Civil War Reconstruction period when after ten years of relatively open democracy all black people were disenfranchised. -------------------------------- The Mitchell Lecture Series was ...

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YouTube | October 30, 2009

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