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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 30, April 6, April 13, April 20, April 27
TIMES: 7 p.m. for all dates
LOCATION: Kane Hall 210
COST: $150
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LECTURE 1, March 30: Montgomery: A Mass Movement Begins
LECTURE 2, April 6: Nonviolence and the Soul of America: Nashville to Birmingham
LECTURE 3, April 13: Mississippi: The Magnolia Crucible
LECTURE 4, April 20: Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Improbable President
LECTURE 5, April 27: Selma Then and Now: We shall overcome
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LocationKANE HALL 210 UW CAMPUS
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON CAMPUS
Seattle, WA 98195
United States
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