Speakers relating to: Civil Rights
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Dr. Terrence Roberts
Lessons from Little Rock
All the seats at the hamburger joint were reserved for white patrons, so 13 year old Terrence Roberts ordered food to go. While waiting, he impulsively sat down at the counter and then realized a hush had fallen over the place. Suddenly everyone seemed to be looking at him threateningly. He canceled his order and left. As he walked home, Roberts remembers wondering "what it would take for (him) to be treated like a real human being."
Two years later, in 1957, he volunteered to be one of the 'Little Rock Nine' who desegregated Central High School, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Chaplain James Yee
Islamophobia: Fighting Ignorance and Promoting Peace
The September 11th attacks, the controversy over a proposed community center in Lower Manhattan (AKA The Ground Zero Mosque), threatened Quran burnings, ongoing military conflicts in Afghanistan, and the “War on Terror,” have all elevated the prejudices leading to discrimination, profiling, hate crimes, and violation of constitutional rights in our society.
