Samford University and the Birmingham Public Library will sponsor a series of events this spring in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement.
“The Year of Birmingham” will reflect on events of 1963, and the turbulent battle for freedom and equality. Birmingham is now recognized as a symbol of both racial intolerance and racial reconciliation.
On Jan. 23, Samford sponsored the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lecture, “Every New Generation: Immigrants, Society and the Law in the American South,” presented by Isabel Rubio at Arrington Auditorium of the Birmingham Public Library.
The upcoming schedule:
February 5 — “Ethnic Notions,” film and discussion on racial stereotypes, Brock Forum in Samford’s Dwight Beeson Hall, 3:30 p.m.
February 19 — “Montgomery to Memphis,” film and discussion, Brock Forum in Samford’s Dwight Beeson Hall, 3:30 p.m.
March 5 — “Who Speaks for Birmingham?” film and discussion, Brock Forum, 7 p.m.
April 12 — “This City Isn’t Dead Yet: Temple Emanu-El and Civil Rights in Birmingham,” a lecture by Samford history department chair Jonathan Bass, Temple Emanu-El, 5:40 p.m.
May 1 — “Crisis,” documentary film and discussion about George C. Wallace and his stand at the school house door, Brock Forum.
For more information on the events, contact Bass at 205-726-4133 or email sjbass@samford.edu.
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