Should there be security in struggle? Who determines the crises worthy enough of relief? What was the significance of money in Civil Rights activism? These questions were at the center of the Civil Rights movement in people's everyday lives, but we seldom hear about them.

Dr. Quincy T. Mills:

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of History at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Dr. Mills is currently writing his second book tentatively titled "The Wages of Resistance: Financing the Black Freedom Movement."

In this lecture, Dr. Quincy T. Mills will use grassroots funding and fundraising during the Civil Rights movement to highlight the importance of social welfare in redefining civil rights as human rights. Activists' efforts to tend to the basic human needs of Black people during struggle speaks to a stolen democratic practice in southern states. He contends that economic security was and is critical in realizing the promises of democracy.