Presented By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
The Movement Made Us All: Historical Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement and the Current Moment
David Dennis, Jr., (author, journalist, senior writer at Andscape and ESPN commentator) David Dennis, Sr., UM Law ’71 (founder and director of the Southern Initiative Algebra Project, CORE Southern Regional Director, 1962-65)
As part of the University of Michigan's MLK Symposium, please join us for a conversation with journalist and sports commentator David Dennis Jr. and his father, civil rights movement veteran David Dennis Sr. Authors of "The Movement Made Us: A Father, A Son and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride," a moving memoir of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, Dennis Jr. and Sr. will discuss the political and personal legacies of the movement and its historical relevance for the challenges facing American society in the present. Matthew Countryman, associate professor of Afroamerican Studies and History, will serve as moderator for the event.
There will be a reception at 4:00 pm in the Pendleton Room of the Michigan Union before the event where guests will have the opportunity to purchase copies of "The Movement Made Us" signed by the authors.
Presented by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of History, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, the Michigan Program for Advancing Cultural Transformation (M-PACT) in Biomedical and Health Sciences and the Scholars Network on Masculinity and the Well-Being of African American Men in the Center for Social Solutions. Additional support from the Kalt Fund for African American and African History.
There will be a reception at 4:00 pm in the Pendleton Room of the Michigan Union before the event where guests will have the opportunity to purchase copies of "The Movement Made Us" signed by the authors.
Presented by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of History, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, the Michigan Program for Advancing Cultural Transformation (M-PACT) in Biomedical and Health Sciences and the Scholars Network on Masculinity and the Well-Being of African American Men in the Center for Social Solutions. Additional support from the Kalt Fund for African American and African History.
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