Panelists include Dr. Paul Ortiz, Director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, Dr. Zoharah Simmons, Lecturer of African American Studies and Religion, and two Dream Defenders, Nailah Summers and Shamile Louis for the September 9 event at 6 p.m., presented by the African American Studies Program: “Emancipation Betrayed?”
Discussion will focus on the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Justice for Trayvon Martin Movement and the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington in Smathers Library Room 1A.
Moderator: Dr. Patricia Hilliard-Nunn, Lecturer of African American Studies.
Panelists: Dr. Paul Ortiz, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
“The Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America”: Commemorating Emancipation(s) in the Century of Black Anti-Imperialism, 1820s-1920s
Dr. Zoharah Simmons, Lecturer of African American Studies and Religion
“The 1963 March on Washington: The Myths vs. The Realities”
Nailah Summers and Shamile Louis, Undergraduate Students
“Reflections from Two of the Dream Defenders on the Justice for Trayvon Martin Movement”