Degrees of Freedom Archives - News and Media /news/tag/degrees-of-freedom/ Augsburg University Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:23:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 Bill Green discusses the history of civil rights in Minnesota, appears on KIMT television /news/2016/12/15/bill-green-discusses-the-history-of-civil-rights-in-minnesota-appears-on-kimt-television/ Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:57:02 +0000 http://www.augsburg.edu/news/?p=7295 Augsburg College Professor of History Bill Green spoke to a crowd at the Rochester Art Center about what he learned while researching Minnesota’s history of race relations. Green is the author of the award-winning book, “Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota.” KIMT-TV covered the event and interviewed Green, who described similarities ...

The post Bill Green discusses the history of civil rights in Minnesota, appears on KIMT television appeared first on News and Media.

]]> kimt_2014Augsburg College Professor of History Bill Green spoke to a crowd at the Rochester Art Center about what he learned while researching Minnesota’s history of race relations. Green is the author of the award-winning book, “Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota.”

KIMT-TV covered the event and interviewed Green, who described similarities and differences between the challenges faced by organizers of the state’s early Civil Rights movement and those involved with the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement.

The post Bill Green discusses the history of civil rights in Minnesota, appears on KIMT television appeared first on News and Media.

]]>