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Tracking the demands of the civil rights movement from the 1960s till today
September 29, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Speakers
- Adewale Maye, Economic Policy Institute
- Jessica Fulton, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
- Alex Morash, One Fair Wage
- William Spriggs, AFL-CIO
Session Descriptions
This session will inform conference attendees of the policies, strategies, and actions advocated for during the March on Washington and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and then to use these social policy requests as a metric to determine which policies were implemented, which have yet to be realized, and what this means for racial economic justice.
The Economic Policy Institute would like to thank the following funders for their ongoing and generous support for the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN):
- Anonymous
- AFL-CIO
- AFSCME
- American Federation of Teachers
- Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust
- Ford Foundation
- International Association of Machinists
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters
- Kresge Foundation
- National Association of Letter Carriers
- National Education Association
- Marguerite Casey Foundation
- Omidyar Network
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- The Rockefeller Foundation
- Service Employees International Union
- Surdna Foundation
- UNITE HERE
- United Auto Workers
- United Brotherhood of Carpenters
- United Food and Commercial Workers
- United Steelworkers of America
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation