Prof. Nix Discusses Impact on City from 1968 Unrest
April 2, 2018
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Institutionalized segregation, arcane rules seeking residential "balance" in neighborhoods, enforced economic inequality, violence, unrest—it's all there, in Baltimore's long struggle to overcome a legacy of systemic racial injustice. Elizabeth M. Nix, associate professor of history at the University of Baltimore and chair of its Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies in the Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences, talks about this monumental fight as part of The Baltimore Sun's new video series commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
"I'm not convinced the arc of history always bends towards justice," Prof. Nix says in her video, one of 13 in the series. "We have to work, constantly."
View the Sun's video series.
Learn more about Prof. Nix.