![Loading Events](https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/src/resources/images/tribe-loading.gif)
- This event has passed.
Desmond King, “When the State Stops: The Unruly Demise of Federal Civil Rights Activism”
February 19, 2016 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
![Desmond King](https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/desmond-king.jpg)
Professor Desmond King is the author Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of Diverse Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2002) and co-author (with Lawrence Jacobs) of Fed Power: The Federal Reserve and the Great Recession (forthcoming).