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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 -- in August 1965 -- 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 five crucial roads in the civil rights movement converged in Selma: (a) Montgomery and its bus boycott pioneers; (b) Mississippi and its fearless civil rights footsoldiers, (c) Nashville and its nonviolent students, (d) Birmingham and its children, and (e) 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: Wednesdays; October 14, October 28, November 11, November 18, Dec 2
TIME: 7 p.m. for all dates
LOCATION: See below.
COST: $75
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10/14 LECTURE 1, "Montgomery: A Mass Movement Begins"
International High School Performing Arts Center
445 128th Ave SE, Bellevue, WA 98005
10/28 LECTURE 2, "Nonviolence and the Soul of America: Nashville to Birmingham"
International High School Performing Arts Center
445 128th Ave SE, Bellevue, WA 98005
11/11 LECTURE 3, "Mississippi: The Magnolia Crucible"
Interlake High School Performing Arts Center
16245 NE 24th St, Bellevue, WA 98008
11/18 LECTURE 4, "Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Improbable President"
Interlake Performing Arts Center
16245 NE 24th St, Bellevue, WA 98008
12/2 LECTURE 5, "Selma Then and Now: We shall overcome"
Bellevue Performing Arts Center
10416 SE Wolverine Way, Bellevue, WA 98004
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You will only receive one ticket for the series. Your ticket is valid for all 5 lectures. If your ticket is misplaced, please check in at the desk when you arrive for the lectures.
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LocationInternational High School Performing Arts Center (View)
445 128th Ave SE
Bellevue, WA 98005
United States
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