How Two Black Athletes Ran for Civil Rights

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Feb 15, 2024

A New York Historical Society exhibition tells the story of two Black athletes who democratized running in New York City. Allison Robinson, the associate curator of exhibitions at New-York Historical Society, and Marilyn Kushner, curator and head, Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections, joins us to discuss the show, Running for Civil Rights: The New York Pioneer Club, 1936 – 1976 which on display through Sunday, Feb. 25.

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