Professor Harris gives his perspective on the civil rights movement in the North during the 1950s and 1960s. This lecture was given at Independence Hall, an important site of protests during the civil rights movement.

Clemmie Harris is a Visiting Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Wesleyan University.  A former Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. and Fellow of the Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Program, Africana Studies, and William Fontaine Society at the University of Pennsylvania, he received a Ph.D. in History and graduate certificates in African Studies, Africana Studies, and Urban Studies. He is currently working on two book projects: “We Will Be Heard: The Struggle For Political Recognition and Civil Rights in Philadelphia,” which examines the African American quest for electoral power and community control from 1911 to 1984, and a biography of W. Wilson Goode, Sr., chronicling the life and political career of Philadelphia’s first black mayor.