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Fifty years ago in March 1965, the nation watched as Alabama state troopers brutally beat civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma in what became known as "Bloody Sunday." Two weeks later the same marchers walked 54 miles to the Alabama capitol in Montgomery, and five months later Congress passed and President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act -- one of the most important pieces of legislation in the history of American democracy. This lecture series examines how four crucial roads in the civil rights movement converged in Selma: (a) Mississippi and its fearless civil rights footsoldiers, (b) Nashville and its nonviolent students, (c) Birmingham and its children, and (d) the Texas Hill Country and the first Southern President in a century. Fifty years later, the battle for voting rights for all Americans has returned to the center of the nation's democracy.
LECTURE SPEAKER: University of Washington Professor David Domke
DATES: March 31, April 7, April 14, April 21, April 28
TIMES: 7 p.m. for all dates
LOCATION: Horizon House, 900 University Street, Seattle, WA 98101, 19th Floor Sky Lounge
COST: $200
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LECTURE 1, March 31: Montgomery: A Mass Movement Begins
LECTURE 2, April 7: Nonviolence and the Soul of America: Nashville to Birmingham
LECTURE 3, April 14: Mississippi: The Magnolia Crucible
LECTURE 4, April 21: Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Improbable President
LECTURE 5, April 28: Selma Then and Now: We shall overcome
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LocationHorizon House, 19th Floor, Sky Lounge (View)
900 University Street
Seattle, WA 98101
United States
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