Nazareth College celebrates the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. through a series of special events on Monday, January 18, 2010, including a lecture by Pulitzer Prize winning author and professor, David Garrow. Garrow is a Senior Research Fellow at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. The lecture is from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., in the Callahan Theater of the Nazareth College Arts Center. This lecture is free and open to the public (no reservation required). For more information call (585) 389-2073. Nazareth College is located at 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, N.Y. 14618.
From 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., a memorial service organized by the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Planning Committee will be held on the Nazareth College campus in the Linehan Chapel of the Golisano Academic Center. Undergraduate and graduate classes will be suspended during this two-hour span. The memorial service is also free and open to the public.
Headlining the day’s events will be keynote speaker David Garrow. Garrow is the author of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Morrow, 1986; HarperCollins paperback, 2004), which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the seventh annual Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He is also the author of The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. (Norton, 1981) and Protest at Selma (Yale University Press, 1978).
He regularly contributes to Newsweek, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wilson Quarterly.
Garrow has taught at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the City University of New York, The Cooper Union (where in 1992-1993 he served as Visiting Distinguished Professor of History), the College of William and Mary (where in 1994-1995 he served as Harrison Professor of History), American University (where in 1995-96 he served as Distinguished Historian in Residence), and Emory University (where from 1997 until 2005 he was Presidential Distinguished Professor). Born in Massachusetts in 1953, Garrow graduated magna cum laude from Wesleyan University in 1975, and received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1981.
Founded in 1924, Nazareth College is a coeducational college with undergraduate and graduate studies in the liberal arts and sciences and professional programs in health and human services, education, and management. The College is located on 150 scenic acres near Rochester, New York, and currently enrolls approximately 2,000 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate students. Nazareth has a strong commitment to experience-based learning and civic engagement. In the past decade, Nazareth has produced 18 Fulbright recipients and two Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowships. For more information on the College, visit www.naz.edu <http://www.naz.edu> .
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