May 3, 2013

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s: presented by Kari Fisher (faculty in English) and Normandale students.

 What we know of the Civil Rights Movement is all too often solely defined by a few events and key people.  1963 is no exception.  Framed by the inauguration of Alabama Governor George Wallace and the assassination of John F. Kennedy; the year is also remembered for the March on Washington, Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the murder of four “little girls” in Birmingham. During this presentation, we’ll examine how some of the lesser known stories, events, and people of  1963 created such a transformative year and how this time still shapes and inspires us.

Inspired by correspondence with Civil Rights veterans including Hunter Gray, Kari Fisher applied and was accepted for a 2011 National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks in Democracy Seminar: “From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation Strike” with the Fannie Lou Hamer Institute.  Kari and several students will share writing, photos, and stories of what they’ve learned about this transformative year.

May 3, 2013. [Note: this concluded the 2012-2013 Colloquium Series.]