Fight for Freedom
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| Photo courtesy the Kansas Collection, Spencer Research Library, KU Libraries |
LHC Brown Bag - KASC Seminar Series
The Langston Hughes Center at the University of Kansas presents
Fight for Freedom! A Century of the NAACP and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Friday | February 13, 2009 | 8 am - 5 pm The University of Kansas, Kansas Union Alderson Auditorium, Lawrence, Kansas
This symposium has already occurred but you may view all the lectures by clicking on the speaker’s name below. To see pictures of the event click on LHC Event Photos above.
Marking the centennial of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and honoring Langston Hughes’ 1962 history of the organization, this symposium (re)investigates the NAACP and it’s various legacies for a dawning new century. This commemoration will also provide a powerful entry for larger conversations on race and racism in America today.
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| The Conference Flyer |
Featuring Guest Speakers from the following Universites:
- University of South Carolina
- Emory University
- University of Massachusetts
- Friends University
- Illinois State University
I grew up with the NAACP… I learned to read with The Crisis on my grandmother’s lap. The first movingly beautiful words I remember are those of the Bible and the editorials by Dr. Du Bois in The Crisis. My Mother… was an early member of the NAACP. I do not remember when my folks did not receive The Crisis. In Lawrence and Topeka and Kansas City I often heard them talking about the NAACP.
— Langston Hughes, Fight for Freedom, 1962
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| The Conference Flyer #2 |