Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Presents: Slavery by Another Name

Learn and explore the PBS documentary Slavery by Another Name with Professor Amad Shakur. Please join us for a town hall discussion following the screening of the documentary.The documentary recounts how in the years following the Civil War, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South, keeping hundreds of thousands of African Americans in bondage, trapping them in a brutal system that would persist until the onset of World War II.