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Freedom Riders Part 1: Created Equal Film Series @ NW Lakeview
Please join us for the screening of “Freedom Riders”, an award winning documentary that tells the story behind a courageous band of civil rights activists called Freedom Riders who in 1961 challenged segregation in the American South. The film, part of our Created Equal Film series, will be shown in the Northeast Lakeview College Performing Arts Theater, on a LARGE screen – part one on February 3 and part two on February 10, 2015, starting at 6:30 p.m. on both…
Find out more »Shia Nizari Ismaili Traditions @ the SoL Center
with Dr. Zarin Gillani Tuesday, Feb. 3, 7 – 9 p.m.;$15 or $60 for series Register By: Jan. 27. Enrollment: 12 min. / 60 max. Shia Nizari Ismailis are a branch of the Shia tradition in Islam, led by the Aga Khan IV, Prince Shah Karim Al Husseini. They are active in programs and projects throughout the developing world to improve the lives of all people. Dr. Gillani will discuss how they relate to their sister communities within the Muslim…
Find out more »Doris Kearns Goodwin @ Trinity
Doris Kearns Goodwin, renowned presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize winning author, will present “Leadership Lessons of History: Doris Kearns Goodwin on the American Presidents” as part of Trinity’s Cameron Lecture Series. Goodwin is the author of six critically acclaimed and New York Times best-selling books, including her most recent, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. The Bully Pulpit is a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous…
Find out more »Panel & Film — The Civil Rights Movement and Beyond @ San Antonio College
Documentary: "They Had a Dream Too" 9:25 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Loftin Student Center Fiesta Room They Had a Dream Too: Young Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement consists of a 28 minute film highlighting the achievement of a few of the thousands of young people who made a difference in the 1950s and 1960s when the struggle for civil rights reached its peak in the United States. The film includes interviews with people who…
Find out more »Julian Bond @ St. Philip’s College!
From his college days as a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to his role as former Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Julian Bond has been an active participant in the movements for civil rights, economic justice, and peace and an aggressive spokesman for the disinherited. The St. Philip’s College President’s Lecture Series provides opportunities for the college and the community to hear speakers’ perspectives on a broad range of local,…
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