Homegrown Activism: Nashville, Civil Rights, and Justice Series
If you didn’t know, there is way more to Nashville than hot chicken and country music. It also has played an incredibly important and central role in so many different movements that continue to battle for social justice.
The Office of the Dean of The Ingram Commons, in partnership with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ NAACP chapter, The Belcourt Theater, Professor Lou Outlaw, and Professor Dennis Dickerson, would like you to participate in our series Homegrown Activism: Nashville, Civil Rights, and Justice.
Sponsor:Â The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons
Contact Person:Â Melissa Gresalfi, melissa.gresalfi@vanderbilt.edu and Frank Dobson, frank.dobson@vanderbilt.edu
- Discuss: John Lewis- His History and His Legacy
- Thur., September 10
- 7:00 p.m. CT
- Description: learn more about John Lewis and his role in the Civil Rights Movement.Â
- Dig Deeper: The Making of a Movement
- Tue., September 22
- 7:00 p.m. CT
- Description: End the series by hearing more about Lewis and Lawson’s role in the Nashville movement.Â