The Living New Deal presented our second Annual New Deal Book Award to Victoria Wolcott (University of Buffalo). The award ceremony took place at the Roosevelt Reading Festival at FDR Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, NY. LND team members Gray Brechin and Jeff Gold attended the event. Professor Wolcott discussed her book, Living in the Future, Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement, (University of Chicago Press-2022). Living in the Future reveals the unexplored impact of utopian thought on the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement. A LND webinar featured Dr. Wolcott in dialogue with Professor Kimberly Johnson (New York University). Dr. Johnson, a member of the Living New Deal Research Board, is the new chair of the New Deal Book Award selection committee for books published in 2023. Many thanks to Professor Eric Rauchway (University of California, Davis) for leading the committee over the past two years.
