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Hope and Struggle in the Policed City

Sat, January 18, 2025 3:00 P.M.
Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional Library

Cost: FREE

Join us for a book reading with Menika Dirkson, PhD, historian and lifelong Germantown resident whose new work explores Philly's history of black criminalization and resistance from the Civil Rights Era through the 1970s.  (Published by NYU Press, 2024).

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Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional Library
68 West Chelten Avenue (Greene St. & Chelten Ave.)
Philadelphia, PA 19144-2795
215-685-2150

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