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The Problem with Periodization: Civil Rights in Philadelphia 

presented by Amber Wiley, Ph.D.

The Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites (CPCRS) at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design defines civil rights as “the Black experience in the US in the 19th and 20th centuries, not confined to the South nor to the critical period of 1954-1968.” As such, the CPCRS undertakes research both locally and nationally that moves beyond the general notion of the classical Civil Rights Movement. This talk will focus on this expanded notion of civil rights and the CPCRS’ various initiatives in the greater Philadelphia area that uplift the life and legacies of Henry Ossawa Tanner, Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, and Bayard Rustin.

Amber N. Wiley is the inaugural Matt and Erika Nord Director of the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites (CPCRS) and Presidential Associate Professor in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Her research interests center on the social aspects of design and how it affects urban communities – architecture as a literal and figural structure of power. She focuses on the ways local and national bodies have made the claim for the dominating narrative and collective memory of cities and examines how preservation and public history contribute to the creation and maintenance of the identity and sense of place of a city.

$15 | General Admission

$10 | Alliance Member 

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