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Tickets for the next lecture series, beginning March 30 can be found here: http://uwdomketoselma3.bpt.me (copy and paste into your search bar)
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: January 5, January 19 (MLK Day), February 2, February 16 (Presidents Day), February 23
TIMES: 7 p.m. for all dates
LOCATION: Kane Hall 120
COST: $150
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LECTURE 1, Jan 5: Montgomery to Nashville, 1955-1961: The rise of nonviolence
LECTURE 2, Jan 19: Showdown in Birmingham, 1963: Police dogs, fire hoses, and the Children's Crusade
LECTURE 3, Feb 2: Freedom Summer in Mississippi, 1964: Shining this little light of theirs
LECTURE 4, Feb 16: The Ascendancy of LBJ, 1937-1964: Beggar, cheater, liar, gladiator, president
LECTURE 5, Feb 23: Marching in, on, and from Selma, 1965: We shall overcome
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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON CAMPUS
SEATTLE, WA 98195
United States
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