CONFRONTING INJUSTICE THEN AND NOW
RSVP for Bernard LaFayette: Confronting Injustice Then and Now
Thursday, February 10
10:00 a.m.
Founders Hall @ Davidson Hall
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, CT
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As his final exams beckoned in 1962 at Nashville's American Baptist Theological Seminary, twenty-year-old Bernard LaFayette was called to participate in the civil rights movement's Freedom Rides. The Freedom Rides set out to enforce a Supreme Court decision banning racial segregation by riding public transportation in the South to challenge local practices illegally enforcing segregation.
Join us in a discussion of Confronting Injustice Then and Now with Dr. Bernard LaFayette in New Britain, this Friday, 2/11, at 10 am at Central Connecticut State University's Founders Hall.
After the end of the Freedom Riders campaign, Dr. LaFayette (he eventually took those exams - check out the powerful video of his story about that decision - and ultimately earned his PhD at Harvard's School of Education) worked on voting rights and helped to coordinate the 1968 Poor Peoples Campaign. For several years he was the Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island, and currently Dr. LaFayette teaches at Emory University and conducts nonviolent workshops worldwide.
Please join us at 10 am on Friday in New Britain in a conversation with Dr LaFayette.
Sponsored by CCSU, The School of Education and Professional Studies, School of Business, School of Arts & Sciences, in partnership with: CT Center for Nonviolence, CCSU Faculty Senate Diversity Committee, CCSU MOSAIC Center, CT Parent Power
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