The 2012 Life of the Mind series will examine the idea of heroism, focusing during February on the Civil Rights era in our nation’s history. With a special interest on local events and activists, the group will present two programs during Black History Month.
In conjunction with the ASU Film Club, the documentary Stars and Bars Aflame will be viewed on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. in 170 University Hall. The film will be followed by a question and answer session led by the film’s producer and director, former ASU student Banks Pappas. Stars and Bars Aflame, which discusses civil rights at both the national and local levels, has been nominated for prestigious awards.
On Wednesday, Feb. 29, a panel examining civil rights activism in Augusta in the 1960s and 1970s will be held from 2-3:30 p.m. in the Dome Room located in Washington Hall. Panelists will include John Hayes, professor in the Department of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy; Roscoe Williams, former dean of students at ASU; Grady Abrams, author, painter, and former Augusta City councilman; Hodges Usry, filmmaker; and Banks Pappas, filmmaker and ASU graduate. This panel is being co-sponsored by the Augusta Blue Ribbon Committee on Race Relations.
For more information, call Peggy Ruth Geren, professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Counseling, and Special Education, at 706-737-1497.
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