Author Talk: 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.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Falls of Schuylkill Library, enter on Midvale Avenue.

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