Obama's Role in the Second Movement

New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie joins award-winning journalist Juan Williams for a conversation on Williams’ latest book, New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement, exploring the emergence of a new civil rights era—from the 2008 election of President Obama to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Thomas Donnelly, chief scholar at the National Constitution Center, moderates. 

This conversation was originally streamed live as part of the NCC’s America’s Town Hall series on February 26, 2025. 

Resources

• Juan Williams, New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement (2025)
• Jamelle Bouie, “Discussing Trayvon Martin, Obama Embraces his Blackness,” The American Prospect (July 19, 2013)
• Jamelle Bouie, opinion columnist, The New York Times
• Civil Rights Movement
• Reconstruction
• Thomas Ricks, Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 (2022)

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