“Forgotten Conflict: Remembering the 1964 World’s Fair“
From Professor Kornbluh:
“This is a short video I made with Jeff Wakefield of the UVM Press Office. It centers on research I did at the New York Public Library about a major protest that occurred in the spring of 1964 — a little more than fifty years ago. I found that it was an unjustly forgotten chapter in the history of civil rights, especially civil rights in the urban North of the United States. I found out about the protest in the course of writing my first book, The Battle for Welfare Rights; I learned that several activists who became leaders of the welfare rights movement (a distinctive branch of civil rights that focused on social welfare benefits and their beneficiaries) got their start as protesters at the New York City World’s Fair in April, 1964. The protest also relates to my forthcoming book, Constant Craving: Economic Justice in Modern America, as the protest concerned, among other things, the rights to employment (and therefore income) of African American and Puerto Rican New Yorkers. This is one of many episodes that teach the important lesson that civil rights were economic rights.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FW6D73cbFQ&feature=youtu.be
