Truman Morrison Memorial Lecture Series with Michael Lawrence, Professor of Law, MSU

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Edgewood United Church of Christ invites the public to the Truman Morrison
Memorial Lecture Series.
Michael Lawrence, Associate Dean for Graduate and International Programs & Professor of Law at Michigan State University will address “Truth to Power and the Cost of Doing So” in a series of lectures. Professor Lawrence will reflect on social activists who put themselves on the line in pursuit of a more just society.
Saturday, November 1 Luncheon 12-2 (rsvp) $10 “Betrayals and Bridges
The Life and Work of Native American Scholar and Activist, Vine Deloria, Jr.,” who was a political voice for Indians reclaiming their tribal heritage and seeking a common ground between modern science and native spirituality (C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions: Dreams, Visions, Nature, and the Primitive, 2009).
Sunday, November 2, 2014 10 am to 11 am-Church Service Professor Lawrence’s topic will be “Speaking Truth to Power (and the Cost of Doing So).” He will focus on the debt we owe to social activists who put themselves on the line in pursuit of a more just society.
Sunday, November 2, 2014, at 4:00 pm Four Hundred Years of American Activism: Based on Michael Lawrence's 2011 book, "Radicals in Their Own Time: Four Hundred Years of Struggle for Liberty and Equal Justice in America" (Cambridge). This discussion will focus on social progress of a number of exemplary individuals in America; Roger Williams (1603-1683) (religious freedom); Thomas Paine (1737-1809) liberty & equal justice; Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) women’s rights; W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) racial justice; and Vine Deloria, Jr. (1933-2005) Native American rights.