http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=247227542450&ref=nf
Date:
Monday, February 1, 2010
Time:
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Konover Great Room, University of Hartford
Street:
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT
Is Social Activism and Racial Justice Still Significant 50 Years After the Greensboro Sit-In Movement?
On February 1, 1960, four African American students– Ezell A. Blair Jr. (now known as Jibreel Khazan), David L. Richmond, Joseph A. McNeil, and Franklin E. McCain– from Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina, a historically black college, sat at a segregated lunch counter in the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's store. Demonstrations by students against segregation spread across the South drawing new attention and energy to the Civil Rights Movement.
Bill Fletcher, Jr., the executive editor of THE BLACK COMMENTATOR and founder of the Center for Labor Renewal is the featured speaker
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