Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts

Monday, February 13, 2012

In Her Own Words - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper





Mon. Feb. 13, 2012

March 13, 2008

Dorothy Prince actress, educator [homepage]

Dorothy Prince brings to life Ellen Watkins Harper, a leading African American poet and prolific novelist of the 19th century, in this dramatic reading.

Born in free Maryland, but witness to the pervasive oppression of the era, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a devoted abolitionist and feminist activist.

Presented by WGBH and Old South Meeting House




Monday, January 16, 2012

The Freedom Riders - Lecture and Panel Discussion

Part 1



Part 2





Tue. Jan. 10, 2012
Freedom Riders - 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
March 17, 2007
Raymond Arsenault professor, southern history, USF
Raymond Arsenault brings a defining moment in modern American history to life, drawing on personal papers, FBI files, and interviews with more than 200 participants in the rides. Arsenault's Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice rescues the men and women who, at great personal risk, rode public buses into the South in order to challenge segregation in interstate travel from historical obscurity.
This lecture is copresented with the Georgia Center for the Book.
Series:
The Freedom Rides - A Panel Discussion on the Movie
April 20, 2011
Bernard LaFayette scholar-in-residence, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Callie Crossley radio host, The Callie Crossley Show [homepage]
Genevieve Hughes former Freedom Rider
Ernest Patton former Freedom Rider
PBS and the Kennedy Library hosted a Boston screening of American Experience’s “Freedom Riders.” Following the documentary, Bernard Lafayette and others participated in a panel discussion moderated by 89.7 WGBH radio host, Callie Crossley.

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