Martin Luther King Jr
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This year’s lecture, provided by the , featured her personal reflections on watching the civil rights movement unfold and the coque iphone 6s plus karl lagerfeld ongoing work for justice. These were facilitated discussions on how to build authentic community coque huawei p10 across racial, ethnic, national, socio economic and religious divides. Specific times and locations are listed below. People were encouraged to sign up for the discussion happening coque iphone 6 trump in the building where they work or spend time. However, all sessions were open to anyone.
Monday, January 20 Critical Dialogue Sessions
Critical Dialogue Sessions Schedule
Centennial Student Union Ballroom at Minnesota State University Mankato
Reception, address by , and presentation of the 2020 Pathfinder Award
RSVP at MLK Community Celebration
These events are sponsored by the Gustavus Diversity Center, Gustavus coque samsung j6 Office of the Chaplains, Gustavus Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies Program, Gustavus Office of the President, Gustavus Office of Marketing and coque iphone 6 gel Communication, Mankato coque iphone 5s tortue ninja MLK Committee, and Minnesota State University, Mankato. coque autres huawei will start (and end) one hour later than coque iphone 6 bambi they normally would. is the youngest daughter of the American civil rights movement co founder Rev. Dr. Ralph David and Mrs. Juanita Jones Abernathy. She was born in the midst of the civil rights movement as her father and his best friend, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. established the nonviolent social movement which changed the course of American coque iphone 6 smoke history.
Her life began with the bombing of her parents’ home and coque iphone 6s princesse her father’s First Baptist coque iphone 7 cool Church in Montgomery, Alabama. She and her siblings witnessed and participated in all of the major civil rights movements and marches, including the Freedom Riders, the March On Washington, the Selma to Montgomery March for “The Right to Vote” and the Chicago Housing Demonstrations. The ecran et coque iphone 5s Abernathy and King children integrated Spring Street Elementary School which led to mass integration of schools in the South in 1965. From her home, she witnessed Martin Luther King and her Father make integral decisions that helped create American laws such as the Civil Rights Bill, the Public Accommodations Act, the Voting Rights Act and the Fair Housing coque iphone 5s gendarmerie Act.
After Dr. King’s death, she participated as her father led the Poor Peoples Campaign, introduced the idea and lobby ebay coque iphone 6 transparente Congress for the creation of the National Food Stamp Program, the Free Meal Program for Low Income Children in public schools, the creation of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday and making hunger in America a national agenda with his protest coque iphone 6 pinterest the Apollo 11 Moon launch. As a child, she joined her parents and others in lobbying for coque huawei p9 the creation of Affirmative Action, which would finally allowed minorities at least one tenth of the opportunities for employment and education. Her play “Birmingham Sunday” is a winner of the Tanne Foundation Award.
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