TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The third annual Rose Gladney Lecture on Justice and Social Change at The University of Alabama will be held Wednesday, March 15 at 7 p.m. at the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library.
Ruby Sales, an activist for women’s rights and community development in Washington, D.C., will speak on “The Meaning of the Southern Freedom Movement.”
Sales is a veteran of the Southern Freedom Movement where she organized disfranchised African-Americans in her native Alabama. In the course of that activity, Sales witnessed the brutal shotgun murder of her friend and fellow movement worker, the Rev. Jonathan Daniels, a white Episcopalian seminary student.
She attended Tuskegee University and is a graduate of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass.
The event is co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, University Libraries, New College, the departments of American studies and religious studies and the African-American studies program.
A reception will follow the talk. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 205/348-5940 or 205/348-0500.
Contact
Beth Stephenson or Linda Hill, UA Media Relations, 205/348-8325, lhill@ur.ua.edu