Hope and Struggle in the Policed City

Join us for an author talk with Menika Dirkson, author of Hope and Struggle in the Policed City. Menika Dirkson is a Philadelphia native and an Assistant Professor of African American History at Morgan State University. She received her PhD in History from Temple University. Her research focuses on police-Black community relations in Philadelphia following the Civil Rights Era.  She is currently researching race, policing, and graffiti surounding the public transportation system in post-1958 Philadelphia. She lives in Germantown and regularly volunteers with the Friends of Joseph E. Coleman Library.