MONDAY, JANUARY :30 A.M. CHRIST CHAPEL GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE

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1 MONDAY, JANUARY :30 A.M. CHRIST CHAPEL GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE

2 WELCOME to annual Rev. Dr. Martin Lur King Jr. Memorial Lecture, which emphasizes continuing struggle for civil rights. This year s lecture will be provided by Dr. Joyce Ladner with a keynote address entitled The Civil Rights Movement: Still Marching After All These Years. Joyce will share personal stories being a leader in civil rights movement and reflections on work that is still needed.

3 KEYNOTE SPEAKER DR. JOYCE LADNER is one nation s preeminent thought leaders. Her career has been shaped through her firsthand involvement with civil rights movement in Mississippi and as a staff member that organized March on Washington in In 1963 she was ailed for a week for attempting to integrate all-white Galloway Methodist Church in Jackson, Mississippi. She is a native Mississippian and began her fight for social ustice as a teenager when she helped organize an NAACP Youth Chapter in her hometown. She was expelled from Jackson State College in Mississippi for organizing a civil rights protest. She was a friend and worked with slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers as well as civil rights pioneers Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker. As a field secretary for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Ladner was on front lines most maor civil rights protests 60s including Greenwood, Birmingham, Albany, Selma and or dangerous areas and was on stage when Dr. Martin Lur King gave his I Have A Dream speech. As a sociologist, Ladner has studied and interpreted intersectionality race, gender and class. Her book, Tomorrow s Tomorrow: The Black Woman was first book published in African American Women s Studies and is now an American classic. Her book, The Death White Sociology, was a landmark work that challenged value neutrality mainstream sociology. She has published five additional books and numerous articles. Ladner was a pressor sociology at Hunter College and City University New York Graduate Center, and Howard University. She also served as provost and interim president Howard University. Ladner earned a bachelor s degree from Tougaloo College and a doctorate from Washington University, St. Louis. She studied roles Tanzanian women in nation building and she has lived in Dakar, Senegal. A former senior fellow at Brookings Institution, she has appeared on nationally syndicated radio and television programs. Joyce Ladner is completing her memoir, titled Standing in Gap: A Memoir Resistance, Rebirth and Redemption, that captures spirit her generation SNCC workers that challenged segregation and discrimination in South, and changed face America.

4 MEMORIAL LECTURE PROGRAM PRELUDE PROCESSIONAL HYMN Toccata on Great Day Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941) Lift Every Voice and Sing PRAYER Gracious God, all people are y Beloved, across races, nationalities, religions, sexual orientations, and all ways we are distinctive from one anor. We are all manifestations y image. We are bound toger in an inescapable network mutuality and tied to a single garment destiny. You call us into y unending work ustice, peace, and love. In response to y grace, please let us know y presence among us now. Let us delight in diversity that fers glimpses mosaic y beauty. Strengn us with y steadfast love and transform despairing fatigue into hope-filled action. Under shadow y wings in this h may we find rest and strength, renewal and hope. We ask this today, inspired by example y disciple, Martin Lur King Jr. Amen. WELCOME Rebecca M. Bergman President SPEAKER S INTRODUCTION Daniella Habib 19 KEYNOTE ADDRESS The Civil Rights Movement: Still Marching After All These Years Dr. Joyce Ladner QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS CLOSING BLESSING Gracious God, grant us attention to hear prophets own time. May we have wisdom to discern ir messages through noise and discord lives. May we have strength to do what must be done in this world. May we find cage to live with conviction, boldness, and integrity. And may we know ustice and peace in time. Amen. SHARING OF THE PEACE

5 LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING written by James Weldon Johnson ( ) music by John Rosamond Johnson ( ) & # Lift ev- 'ry voice and 2. Ston - y road we 3. God wea - ry & #. nies hope thus & # skies, feet light, un far -. lib born on # let come keep it re - sound to place us for - ev - sing trod, years, till bit God earth - ter and heav - en chas- t'ning si - lent. - er ty. Let re - oic - ing had died; yet with a stead - y way; thou who hast by thy n loud for er as which in & # & # faith way plac that that - es, with dark tears God, past has where b hope path wine & # that through pres - blood world, ent we has been we. has brought slaugh - for - get # roll par path,.. ring, rod, tears, ring felt thou with in who has rise beat, might high have led. as not us in har days brought - mo - when us lis - t'ning wea - ry - to - ing sea. Sing a song full - ents sighed? We have come o - ver we pray. Lest feet stray from. taught us; sing a song full wa - tered; we have come, tread - ing met e; lest, hearts drunk with U us; tered, e;. fac - ing ris - ing out from gloom - y shad-ow'd be-neath thy n a b sun past, hand, till may new now we we for - day stand ev - be at er - gun, let us march on till vic - to - last where white gleam bright stand, true to God, true to ry star na - is is tive won. cast. land. Text: James Weldon Johnson, ; Music, LIFT EVERY VOICE: J. Rosamund Johnson,

6 WORSHIP LEADERS Leader: Rev. Siri Erickson, Chaplain College Organist: Dr. Chad Winterfeldt, Cantor Christ Chapel SPONSORS The College would like to thank following departments for ir support and cooperation in making today s event possible. Diversity Center Office Chaplains Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies Program Corporation Office President Office Marketing and Communication ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sean Easton Siri Erickson Thomas Flunker Janet Jennings Barb Larson Taylor Graphic Design: Neely Prenzlow

7 QUESTION & ANSWER Please write y question, tear f sheet, and return to a committee member.

8 CRITICAL DIALOGUE SYMPOSIUM SAVE THE DATE! JANUARY P.M., ALUMNI HALL The new Critical Dialogue Symposium will promote an understanding various issues at Gustavus, including topics diversity, equity, inclusion, race, and religion, as well as effect se topics have on various identities connected to College. The hope is to provide a venue for voices to be heard, and to determine roles and responsibilities in creating and driving positive social change. While se conversations may be happening regularly at various or locations, this event is specifically being created for extended Gustavus community. DIVERSITY CENTER gustavus adolphus college Sponsored by Diversity Center 800 West College Avenue Saint Peter, Minnesota gustavus.edu/diversity