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The Struggle for Equality Continues Lake Forest, Ill.—Guest lecturer Thomas J. Sugrue, professor of history and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a lecture titled “Sweet Land of Liberty: The Unfinished Struggle for Racial Equality in the North” at Lake Forest College on Wednesday, April 14, at 4:15 p.m. The lecture will be held in Meyer Auditorium in Hotchkiss Hall, located on the College’s Middle Campus. The public is invited to attend free of charge. For more information, please call 847-735-6010. Sugrue earned degrees at Columbia University, King’s College, Cambridge University, and Harvard University. He received the Richard Dunn Teaching Award for excellence in teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, and his courses have been included in the “Hall of Fame Classes” issued by the Penn Course Review. Sugrue authored The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit, which received the Bancroft prize in American History. He also serves as vice chair of the Philadelphia Historical Commission, and served as an expert for the University of Michigan in the two recent federal lawsuits concerning affirmative action in its admissions. Lake Forest College is a private, liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,300 students representing 46 states and 50 other countries.
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