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SUMMARY:A Special Project 60/50 Brown Bag Lunch Conversation
DESCRIPTION:
 "Provocative Parallels: The Liberation Struggle 
 and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement - A Special 
 Project 60/50 Brown Bag Lunch Conversation"\n
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 This 
 special brown bag session in conjunction 
 with two new exhibitions at the MSU Museum, 
 "Ahmed 'Kathy' Kathrada: A South African 
 Activist for Non-Racialism & Democracy" and 
 "Ruby Bridges, Brown v. Board of Education, 
 and The Greater Lansing Sites of Conscience Project." 
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 The conversation will compare and 
 contrast the Liberation Struggle in South Africa 
 with the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. The 
 invited participants will explore these connections 
 as part of the MSU Project 60/50 thematic 
 year linking exploration and study with 
 public commemoration and remembrance--intertwined 
 with a multitude of cultural expressions 
 focused on civil and human rights.\n
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 The participating 
 panelists for this conversation 
 are: Dr. Peter Alegi, Professor, Department of 
 History, MSU; Dr. Joe T. Darden, Professor 
 of Geography and faculty in African and African-American 
 Studies Program, MSU; Paulette Granberry 
 Russell, Senior Advisor to the President 
 for Diversity, and Director, Office for Inclusion 
 and Intercultural Initiatives, MSU; 
 and Dr. Peter Limb, Adjunct Associate Professor, 
 Department of History and Africana Bibliographer, 
 MSU Library.\n
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 The session will be 
 held in the MSU Museum Auditorium, lead by Dr. 
 C. Kurt Dewhurst, Director of Arts and Cultural 
 Initiatives at MSU, and Director Emeritus 
 of the MSU Museum.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://museum.msu.edu\n
 Contact phone: 517-355-2370\n
 Contact email: pr@museum.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://museum.msu.edu\n
LOCATION:MSU Museum
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