Listener Extra: How Change Happens with Professor Leslie M. Harris

 
 
 

Many of our conversations on Threshold involve asking a basic question:

How did things come to be this way?

As we’ve found over four seasons, the answer really depends on who you ask. According to Leslie M. Harris, a professor who studies African-American history before the Civil War, new ideas can take a long time to work their way through our society. 

In this extra bit of conversation from Season 4: Time to 1.5, Leslie talked with Amy about what Quakers, among the first abolitionists, can teach us about how lasting change happens.

 
 
Amy Martin