Angus Gilbert Lecture

The 2009 Angus Gilbert Lecture will be given by Minnijean Brown Trickey, a veteran civil rights campaigner from the southern United States, on Wednesday, November 25. All are welcome.

 

Brown Trickey was one of the Little Rock Nine, the black high school students who desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.  While the world watched, the students were turned away from the all-white school, first by the Arkansas National Guard and then by an angry white mob. Days later, in a seminal moment in US history, the students entered the school accompanied by 1200 armed US troops.  For the remainder of the school year, soldiers escorted the students to and from school. You can read more about her dramatic story here.

 

Brown Trickey has devoted her life to the causes of peace, the environment, and human rights.  She holds a bachelor’s degree in Native Human Services from Laurentian University and a master’s degree from Carleton University. In 2007, Laurentian conferred upon her an honorary doctorate of laws. In the administration of President Bill Clinton, she served in the Department of the Interior as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Diversity.  She is a recipient of the US Congressional Medal. 

 

Entitled “Little Rock Revisited,” Brown Trickey’s lecture will re-examine this seminal moment in the history of education and civil rights.

 

The lecture is free and open to all.   It will take place at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 25, in the Brenda Wallace Reading Room (third floor of the J.N. Desmarais Library). On-campus parking will be free this evening. People coming from off campus may wish to use this map to identify the location of Laurentian University.

 

For more information, contact Professor Stephen Azzi, Department of History, at 675-1151, extension 4190.

 

 

 
 
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