The Simon Schwob Library, Main Campus will host Freedom
Riders, a national traveling exhibition which tells the story of civil
rights activists who rode interstate buses into the south to challenge
authorities’ failure to enforce U.S. Supreme Court rulings outlawing
segregation. This exhibit will be available for viewing October 17 - November 7. In addition, the library will hold a lecture series associated with this display of history. See
below for lecture event details:
§ A 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24
lecture at Schwob library by T.K. Thorne, author of Last Chance for
Justice: How Investigators Uncovered New Evidence Convicting the Birmingham
Church Bombers. Thorne, a Birmingham police captain-turned-author, offers in
her new book an insider’s look at how two of her colleagues reopened one of the
most infamous civil rights crimes, the Sept. 15, 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth
Street Baptist Church that killed four young girls. That police work led to
convictions of three more Klansmen in 2001-2002.
§ A 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7 lecture at Schwob library by Thomas Aiello, an
assistant professor of history and African-American studies at Valdosta State
University, on "Leaving the Promised Land: The Atlanta Hawks, Race, and
the NBA's Move to the Deep South." Aiello, who’s also taught at the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, has published nonfiction books on the
Grambling-Southern football rivalry and Depression-era competition in the Negro
Leagues, as well as three novels.
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