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Report "Richmond Public Forum Program 1953-54"
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Title
Report "Richmond Public Forum Program 1953-54"
Description
This is a report of the Richmond Public Forum for the 1953-1954 program. Among the 500 respondents to a poll to determine the topics folks wanted to discuss, 337 voted for "Future Racial Relations in the South," making it the number one choice. Because of this, the Forum got Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal, the author of An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, to come speak because he was an "authority on the Negro." His book became influential in the 1954 Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision. Other topics of discussion included the "Future of the United Nations," "American Relations with Communist China," "Freedom of Thought and Expression," and "The Changing Economy of the South."
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Source
Richmond Public Forum, 1953, RG 6.2.4.3 Box 3 Folder 13, University Archives, Virginia Baptist Historical Society.
Date
1953
Format
Language
English
Type
Identifier
UA6.2.4.3.3.13-1953.pdf
Coverage
Richmond (Va.)
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Student Contributor
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Citation
Fitzroy, Herbert W.K., “Report "Richmond Public Forum Program 1953-54",” University of Richmond Race & Racism Project, accessed December 9, 2024, https://memory.richmond.edu/items/show/1879.