An Aurora Forum Special Event for Community Day at Stanford
On 14 April 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., made his second visit to
Stanford's Memorial Auditorium. On this occasion he delivered “The
Other America,” an address that calls everyone together to create a
more just world. At this Aurora Forum Special Event for Community Day
at Stanford, we will screen Allen Willis’ film of Dr. King’s Stanford
speech and enter into a public conversation that places “The Other
America” in historical context and examines its relevance forty years
later.
ALLEN WILLIS
Considered the dean of African American
filmmakers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Allen Willis worked for
KQED-TV from 1963 to 1983 and chronicled Bay Area history as a
documentary cinematographer. He appears courtesy of the East Bay Media
Center, which houses the Allen Willis Archive.
http://www.eastbaymediacenter.com/allen%20willis%20archives.shtml
BERNARD LAFAYETTE
Bernard LaFayette, Jr. has been a Civil
Rights Movement activist, minister, educator, lecturer, and is an
authority on the strategy on nonviolent social change. He co-founded
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960 and was
appointed National Program Administrator for the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC) and National Coordinator of the 1968 Poor
Peoples’ Campaign by Martin Luther King, Jr. He is a former President
of the American Baptist College of ABT Seminary in Nashville; Scholar
in Residence at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent
Social Change in Atlanta; and Pastor emeritus of the Progressive
Baptist Church in Nashville.
http://www.uri.edu/nonviolence/popup/biography.html
THOMAS F. JACKSON
Thomas Jackson just published From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice,
an award-winning book from the University of Pennsylvania Press that
examines King’s lifelong commitments to economic equality, racial
justice, and international peace. Drawing widely on published and
unpublished archival sources at Stanford and elsewhere, Jackson, who
earned a Stanford Ph.D. in history, explains the contexts and meanings
of King's increasingly open call for "a radical redistribution of
political and economic power" in American cities, the nation, and the
world.
http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14280.html
MARK GONNERMAN (moderator) is director of the Aurora Forum.