Clay Risen

Clay Risen discusses his book "The Bill of the Century: The Epic Struggle for the Civil Rights Act" (2014). Speaker Biography: Clay Risen, a senior editor with the New York Times, is the author of "A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination" and "The Bill of the Century: The Epic Struggle for the Civil Rights Act."

Clay Risen, author of The Bill of the Century, speaks about the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 at the 17th Southern Foodways Symposium. Film by Hed Hi Media.

Starr Center Fellow Clay Risen will tell the untold story of the 1964 Civil Rights Act in his April 10 talk. CHESTERTOWN, MD-The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was arguably one of the most important pieces of social legislation in American history.