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Discusses the main concerns of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s and how those have evolved since what s changed for the better what might be worse and where do we go from here The Civil Rights Movement Then and Now America 50 Years of Change Dan Elish is the author of eleven novels including the upcoming KING OF BROADWAY Olympia Press 2025 Dans other books include THE WORLDWIDE DESSERT CONTEST Orchard Books and Bantam THE SCHOOL FOR THE INSANELY GIFTED Harpers NINE WIVES for grown up types St Martins and BORN TOO SHORT SS which won a 2004 International Reading Association Students Choice Award for young adult literature Dan also writes musicals many for children music and lyrics but also the script with Robert Horn to the musical 13 which played at the Mark Taper Forum and won the 2007 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for best production the show moved to Broadway in 2008 and is now a feature on Netflix named one of the best ten films of 202 Dan Elish is the author of eleven novels including the upcoming KING OF BROADWAY Olympia Press 2025 Dan s other books include THE WORLDWIDE DESSERT CONTEST Orchard Books and Bantam THE SCHOOL FOR THE INSANELY GIFTED Harpers NINE WIVES for grown up types St Martins and BORN TOO SHORT SS which won a 2004 International Reading Association Students Choice Award for young adult literature Dan also writes musicals many for children music and lyrics but also the script with Robert Horn to the musical 13 which played at the Mark Taper Forum and won the 2007 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for best production the show moved to Broadway in 2008 and is now a feature on Netflix named one of the best ten films of 2022 by Variety Dan is also the book writer and co lyricist of THE EVOLUTION OF MANN which played at the Cell Theater in NYC in 2018 Dan has also written scripts for TV notably CYBERCHASE and THE WONDER PETS and has won scholarships and fellowships to The Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers Conferences He was a member of the BMI workshop and a current member of the Dramatists Guild Dan lives in New York City with his wife and two children site_link