by lindaoppenheim | Mar 25, 2016 | Documents, Website
While focused on the year 1963, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library has created this timeline of the fight for civil rights that extends from 1939 to 1965. For 1963, the library has reproduced documents including including memos, telegrams, photographs, letters...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 1, 2016 | Workshop
In 1957, nine black teenagers faced the threat of angry mobs when they attempted to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. On Monday, March 14, 2016 (11 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.) a workshop for teachers will be held at Brookdale Community College to...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 13, 2016 | Community Meeting, Events, Uncategorized
Immediately after the Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church worship service, in the second floor Fellowship Hall of this historic church, there will be a pictorial exploration of the Civil Rights Era and the more recent Black Lives Matter Movement. There will also be...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 16, 2015 | Speech
Civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, on October 14, urged Rider University students to create more justice in the world. As quoted by Cristina Rojas in the Times of Trenton, “Our history is that for decades in this country, we burdened and we battered and we...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 4, 2015 | Events
Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, is the keynote speaker for Rider University’s Unity Days on Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 6:45 in the Cavalla Room, Bart Luedeke Center. There is also be an exhibit of Flip...