# The Ambiguities of Robert Purvis

Though relatively unknown today, Robert Purvis led a life and left a legacy that illuminates a great deal about the abolitionist and civil rights movements during the Civil War and Reconstruction; about intergenerational mixed-race identity formation; race, class, and gender dynamics in social justice activism; and much more both in his day and ours.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2023
- By: John W. Kluge Center (library Of Congress)
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2025661259/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2025661259?play=1)