Anne Braden Memorial Lecture
Each year, the ABI puts on an Anne Braden Memorial Lecture in U.S. civil rights movement history.
This event is free and open to the public and typically takes place in the fall semester. Our first-ever lecturer was Julian Bond, longtime president of the NAACP, an early leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and a decades-long friend of Anne Braden. Bond packed a crowd of about 600 people into the Brown-Williamson Room of Cardinal Stadium on April 4, 2007. This event and date also marked the grand opening of the Anne Braden Institute*s reading room in Ekstrom Library. A press conference prior to the lecture celebrated the grand opening, at which Bond made a few opening remarks, then cut a ribbon and led the crowd into the newly created space.
2012: Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley
“Neoliberalism and the War on Our Youth”
November 8, 2012
Belknap Playhouse (1911 S. Third St.)
African American studies scholar, author and UCLA professor, Robin D.G. Kelley addresses mass incarceration, punitive measures against children of color in public schools, Trayvon Martin, the Occupy Movement and racism, and more in his talk, “Neoliberalism and the War on Our Youth” for the 6th Annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture.
Dr. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA. His most recent book is Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Harvard University Press, 2012). He holds a PhD in U.S. History from UCLA, and his wide range of research and teaching interests cover the history of labor and radical movements in theU.S., the African Diaspora, and Africa; intellectual and cultural history; urban studies, and transnational movements.
How Dr. Kelley knew Anne Braden
Read Dr. Kelley’s recent article, “Neoliberalism’s Challenge,” in the Boston Review
Hear Dr. Kelley’s appearance on NPR’s series, “My American Dream Sounds Like”
Read more about the fair market and the presidential election
2011: Dr. Michelle Alexander
“The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”
November 10, 2011
Speed Museum Auditorium (2035 South 3rd Street)
The fifth annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture features a presentation by Dr. Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar who currently holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. Prior to joining the Kirwan Institute, Professor Alexander was an Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where she directed the Civil Rights Clinics.
Click Here to Download the ABI’s New Jim Crow Book Discussion Kit
We have a limited number of books available for loan from the ABI on a first-come/first-served basis. Call 852-6142 for more information.
2010: Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon
November 5, 2010
Comstock Hall (Located in the School of Music)
4th Annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture: Co-sponsored by the University of Louisville School of Music, The fourth annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture features a presentation by Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, a cultural historian, singer/composer, student activist leader veteran of the Albany, Georgia Civil Rights Movement, and a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC Freedom Singers).
2009: Prof. Michael Honey
“From Civil Rights to Economic Justice: The Freedom Movement’s Unfinished Business”
November 10, 2009
Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library
The 3rd Annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture features Prof. Michael Honey, who will deliver a lecture entitled “From Civil Rights to Economic Justice: The Freedom Movement’s Unfinished Business” at 5:30pm on Tuesday, November 10, in the University of Louisville’s Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library. A former community organizer in Louisville and Memphis, Honey was educated at Howard University and Northern Illinois University. Now the Haley Professor of Humanities at the University of Washington, Tacoma, and President of the Labor and Working-Class History Association, Honey has published three award-winning books on the history of union and civil rights struggles in the south. Honey’s latest book, Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign (2008), won the Robert F. Kennedy book award for human rights studies. The lecture will include a slide show and a musical performance. A book signing will follow.
Information on Anne Braden Memorial Lecture {PDF}
2008: Barbara Ransby
“What Now? What Next? Revisiting the Radical Voices of the Civil Rights Movement”
Lecture and Post-Election Reflection
Monday, November 10,2008
Comstock Auditorium
2nd Annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture: Dr. Ransby is author of the award-winning Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, and associate professor of history/African American Studies/Gender and Women*s Studies at Univ. of Illinois-Chicago.
Related Events:
- Ella’s Daughters: Calling All Young Women Activists and their Friends
Nov. 10, 1:30-2:30 pm, UofL Cultural Center, discussion with light refreshments of the new nationwide women’s activist network Ransby helped to spark. Campus and community activists are most welcome! - Community Breakfast Conversation with Barbara Ransby
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 9:30-11 AM, Yearlings Club, 4309 W. Broadway: light breakfast and dialogue to follow up on lecture. Free, but please RSVP. - ‘State of Affairs’ Community Radio Program and Call-in:
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 11 AM-noon, WFPL-89.3 FM, interview and conversation with Dr. Ransby.
2007: Julian Bond
“2007: A Race Odyssey”
First Anne Braden Memorial Lecture
University of Louisville
April 4, 2007
Brown-Williamson Club @ Cardinal Stadium
Program:
- Welcome: Catherine Fosl, ABI Founding Director
- Tribute to Anne Braden: Shameka Parrish-Wright, student and community activist
- Introduction and Overview: J. Blaine Hudson, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
- Remarks: Julian Bond, Chair, NAACP, and a leader of the 1960s student civil rights movement in Atlanta
- Reception following, compliments of the office of Dr. Mordean Taylor-Archer, Associate Provost for Diversity and Equal Opportunity at the University of Louisville
Posted on Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 11:19 am
