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: Fridays: November 13, Nov 20, December 4, Dec 11, Dec 18
TIME: 10 a.m. for all dates except Nov 20, which is at 1 pm
LOCATION: Emerald Hall
COST: $75
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11/13 LECTURE 1, "Montgomery: A Mass Movement Begins"
11/20 LECTURE 2, "Nonviolence and the Soul of America: Nashville to Birmingham"
12/4 LECTURE 3, "Mississippi: The Magnolia Crucible"
12/11 LECTURE 4, "Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Improbable President"
12/18 LECTURE 5, "Selma Then and Now: We shall overcome"
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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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