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“Creating a Vital Transformative Change In the Struggle For American Freedom”

“Creating a Vital Transformative Change In the Struggle For American Freedom”

2010 – The fourth annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture featured a presentation by Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, a cultural historian, singer/composer, student activist leader veteran of the Albany, Georgia Civil Rights Movement; and a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC Freedom Singers).

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From Civil Rights to Economic Justice: The Freedom Movement’s Unfinished Business

From Civil Rights to Economic Justice: The Freedom Movement’s Unfinished Business

2009 – The 3rd Annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture featured Prof. Michael Honey, who delivered a lecture entitled, “From Civil Rights to Economic Justice: The Freedom Movement’s Unfinished Business”.

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What Now? What Next? Revisiting the Radical Voices of the Civil Rights Movement

What Now? What Next? Revisiting the Radical Voices of the Civil Rights Movement

2008 – 2nd Annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture: Dr. Ransby is author of the award-winning Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, and associate professor of history/African American Studies/Gender and Women*s Studies at Univ. of Illinois-Chicago.

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2007: A Race Odyssey

2007: A Race Odyssey

2007 – The first Anne Braden Memorial Lecture guest speaker, the late Julian Bond, was a civil rights icon and catalyst for change during the Civil Rights Movement.

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