2015 Annual Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture: Professor Jeanne Theoharis on Rosa Parks
The Eleanor Roosevelt lecture is intended as a celebration of Eleanor Roosevelt's immense influence as First Lady, public communicator on New Deal issues, human rights campaigner, women's rights advocate, civil rights promoter, and early UNO eminence.
2015 Annual Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture: Professor Jeanne Theoharis on Rosa Parks
29 Jan 2015, 17:30 – 20:30
Rosa Parks is best known as the woman whose refusal to get off a segregated bus sparked the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott of 1955-56, a key event in the development of the Civil Rights Revolution. However her political activism on behalf of black freedom extended well beyond this seminal act of resistance. Distinguished historian Professor Jeanne Theoharis (Brooklyn College, City University New York) explores how her life was dedicated to rebellion against racism. All are welcome to attend a talk that will illuminate the black freedom struggle, the question for civil rights, and the problem of race in modern America.
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