Steve Estes Book Event: Charleston in Black and White | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Please join Green Apple Books in welcoming Steve Estes, author of Charleston in Black and White: Race and Power in the South After the Civil Rights Movement on Thursday, October 8th, 2015 at 7pm at our Clement St. location (506 Clement St.).

Once one of the wealthiest cities in America, Charleston, South Carolina, established a society built on the racial hierarchies of slavery and segregation. By the 1970s, the legal structures behind these racial divisions had broken down and the wealth built upon them faded. Like many southern cities, Charleston had to construct a new public image. In this important book, Steve Estes chronicles the rise and fall of black political empowerment and examines the ways Charleston responded to the civil rights movement, embracing some changes and resisting others.

Steve Estes is professor of history at Sonoma State University and author of I AM a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement and Ask and Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out.

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