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Join Monticello in conversation with prize-winning scholar Dylan Penningroth, discussing his latest book that draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the law to their advantage long before the Civil Rights Movement.

This program is also part of the Leonard J. Sadosky Memorial Lecture series, an annual event that elevates scholarship through the late Leonard Sadosky. With Leonard's legacy in mind, his friends and family conceived the Sadosky Lecture, which brings an ascendant scholar to Monticello every year to deliver a lecture and engage with the intellectual community here.