Wednesday, December 4, 2013

MLK Legacy Lecture: Dr. Stewart Burns


Way Out of No Way: How King's Teachings Might Help Us Overcome Our Quadruple Peril
January 9, 2014 | 11:45am-1:00pm
NKU Mets Center, Erlanger, Kentucky



Union Institute & University is honored to present Dr. Stewart Burns as part of the university’s Ph.D. residency in January. This MLK Legacy Lecture is free and open to the public.

Dr. Burns is a distinguished historian of the civil rights movement, and wrote the Wilbur-Award-winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., To the Mountaintop (2004). A former editor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers at Stanford University, he produced the Montgomery bus boycott volume, Birth of a New Age. He published the first history of the bus boycott, Daybreak of Freedom, which was later made into the HBO feature film Boycott (on which he consulted). In 2002, Dr. Burns earned a NAACP Image Award. His new book We Will Stand Here Till We Die: Freedom Movement Shakes America, Shapes Martin Luther King Jr. (2013) covers the epic story of the American freedom struggle of 1963 from Birmingham to the March on Washington.

Burns has worked for many years in movements for peace and social justice—protesting the Vietnam War, organizing for the United Farm Workers, opposing nuclear power and nuclear weapons, fighting racism and modern slavery, and confronting poverty. His mission is to share lessons from the democratic struggles of the past to empower citizenship today and tomorrow.

Burns earned his Ph.D. in history and political philosophy at the University of California Santa Cruz and has taught at the University of California, Stanford, Antioch University, and Williams College. He currently shares leadership of the Center for Learning in Action at Williams College.

To reserve your seat
RSVP to Shay
(513) 487-1143
shay.mcfarland@myunion.edu 

Learn more about  Union Institute & University's MLK studies specialization program

NKU Mets Center
Auditorium
3861 Olympic Blvd. | Erlanger, Kentucky 41018


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