Centre College is embarking on a yearlong series of programs centered on the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.
The programs had their genesis in a National Endowment for the Humanities and Gilder Lehrman Institute grant, which requires that four films be shown on campus. But Centre professor of politics Daniel Stroup says the college decided to use the requirements as a springboard for a more ambitious series of events.
"It's their goal to institute conversation about questions of race relations and we decided to take that minimal obligation and turn it into a yearlong focus, bringing all sorts of other activities to bear on the question," he says.
The series kicks off Wednesday with a talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning civil rights historian Taylor Branch, with a convocation the following day with Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X Walker.
For more information, visit the official Centre announcement.
