Civil rights leader, "conscience of Congress" coming to Kent
http://www.wksu.org/news/story/25202
John Lewis visit is part of Kent antiwar protest remembrance
April 8, 2010
WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports
Civil rights leader and U.S. Rep. John Lewis will be at Kent State on
May 3 as part of the university's commemoration of the 40 anniversary
of the antiwar protests that led to the deaths of four students.
Lewis is the son of an Alabama sharecropper who attended college in
Tennessee. He became involved with the civil rights movement,
organizing sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters, and
participating in Freedom Rides. He was beaten and arrested, but
remained an advocate for nonviolent protest.
Lewis told a commencement ceremony at Stetson University recently
that activism is needed in democracy.
Representative Lewis' visit is part of a series of panel
discussions, presentations and other events and works commemorating
the shootings on the Kent campus in 1970. The site was added this
year to the national register of historic places.
Lewis will speak at 6:30 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Ballroom.
His speech is titled "Coming Full Circle: Democracy, Engagement and
Social Change."
The event is free.
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