Richard & Leah Rothstein: Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation enacted under The Color of Law

Wednesday, June 14 at 7pm, Carter Museum Theater

Richard Rothstein's book The Color of Law brilliantly recounted how government at all levels created segregation. Just Action describes how we can begin to undo it. Rothstein and co-author Leah Rothstein will discuss their book  in conversation with Natosha Reid Rice, Global Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Officer for Habitat for Humanity International. Free and open to the public.

Matthew Desmond: Poverty, By America

Monday, June 26 at 7:00 pm, Carter Center's Cecil B Day Chapel.

The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Evicted returns with this landmark book showing how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor by driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. Free and open to the public.

Teachers working with grades 3–12 are invited to apply for the inaugural Civics for All of US Teacher Institute with the National Archives taking place in Washington, DC, from July 17–21, 2023. This five-day institute will include special tours and activities in the National Archives Museum, guest speakers, hands-on sessions featuring strategies for teaching civics with primary sources, and site visits to additional landmarks and museums in the nation’s capital. Each participant will receive a stipend to help cover travel and other expenses. Learn more here and apply by 03/31/23.

The 2023 Civics for All of US Teacher Institute is made possible in part by the National Archives Foundation.