2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Lecture - Dorothy Roberts is the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor and the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Dorothy Roberts will present the 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Lecture.The Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Lecture is a remembrance of the life and legacy of the civil rights leader and his dream of acceptance and equality for all. The lecture recognizes national and local leaders who continue to advance King’s message through the pursuit of social justice and promotion of health equity.
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - 34th Annual Washington University Danforth Campus Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration
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Peniel E. Joseph, author of The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., will be interviewed by Lerone A. Martin. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Political Values and Ethics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and professor of history and the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin. Martin is associate professor, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics; director, American Culture Studies program at Washington University.
About the book
This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the 20th century’s most iconic African American leaders.
To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense vs. nonviolence, black power vs. civil rights, the sword vs. the shield. The struggle for black freedom is wrought with the same contrasts. While nonviolent direct action is remembered as an unassailable part of American democracy, the movement’s militancy is either vilified or erased outright. In The Sword and the Shield, Peniel E. Joseph upends these misconceptions and reveals a nuanced portrait of two men who, despite markedly different backgrounds, inspired and pushed each other throughout their adult lives. This is a strikingly revisionist biography, not only of Malcolm and Martin, but also of the movement and era they came to define.
Virtual book club selection: ‘Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage’ by Alfred Lansing
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In 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton sailed via the ship called Endurance to Antarctica. Just short of its destination, the ship became trapped in ice. This is the story of how Shackleton and his crew were forced to travel the 850 miles to the closest outpost of civilization.
Book Club will begin with a short presentation from the Newman Exploration Center, followed by a discussion of the book.
African American Architecture in St. Louis: The Case of Charles E. Fleming
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African American Architecture in St. Louis: The Case of Charles E. Fleming
Interview of Charles E. Fleming by Washington University architectural historians Shantel Blakely and Eric Mumford and alumnus Michael Willis
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In this panel discussion, Washington University architectural historians Shantel Blakely and Eric Mumford will join architect Michael Willis (AB ’73; MArch/MSW ’76) in an interview of Charles E. Fleming (UC ’61) about his more than 50 years of experience as an architect. As one of the first African Americans to earn a degree in architecture from Washington University, Fleming has made significant contributions both regionally and nationally to the field of modern architecture, including numerous residential projects in the St. Louis region. The discussion will delve into Fleming’s design approach and experience related to several of these projects completed during the late 1960s and early 1970s—a time of great social and spatial change in the United States following postwar efforts to address racial discrimination in housing. The program will feature projects emblematic of his architectural practice, most notably Fleming-designed houses in Town and Country, including a house for himself, completed in 1972. This house is an innovative three-story informal design in wood, reflecting Fleming’s design expertise with this material, and is the subject of a book in progress by Mumford and Blakely.
This program is a collaboration between the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum and the College of Architecture.
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