Author of “Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity” to give April 18 lecture at UT Arlington
ARLINGTON, Texas - In his latest book, “Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity,” Neil Foley examines the issues and tensions that plagued Mexican Americans and African Americans in their efforts to end employment discrimination and school segregation during World War II and the years leading up to Brown v. Board of Education.
Foley will discuss recurring themes from his book when he delivers The University of Texas at Arlington Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) Distinguished Lecture on April 18.
The lecture, “Black and Brown in the Southwest:
