Seeking To Tell Research Paper

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“Seeking to Tell a Story: Political Action from Slavery to Civil Rights”. At this event, the Honorable Kasim Reed, mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Sherry Turner, Executive Director of the Atlanta University Center Consortium, Inc., and Mr. Michael Julian Bond, Atlanta City Council Member, showed up to give greetings and to open up the exhibit. The occasion was giving by Mr. Lonnie King, Founding Chairman of the Atlanta Student Movement. The main speaker of this event was Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, III, a pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois. Other honorary member included Mr. and Mrs. Hank Aaron, Mrs. Lucy Pennington, Mr. and Mrs. Herman J. Russell, and Ambassador Andrew Young and Mrs. Carolyn Young. The Seeking to Tell…show more content…
Other primary resources at the Center include the Countee Cullen/Harold Jackman Memorial Collection. The Seeking to Tell a Story: Political Action from Slavery to Civil Rights physical exhibit is on display October 18 through December 13, 2013 and the digital exhibit is currently online. The mission is to provide the highest level of information resources and services in support of teaching and learning, scholarship. The renovated Library features collaborative learning and study spaces, state-of-the-art technology, practice presentation studios, an exhibition hall, and also a premier Archives Research Center. I would greatly recommend this lyceum event to other students and faculty because the exhibit portraits our Civil Rights and our political views as African Americans. It represents how we had to struggle to fight for what is right for the world. It offers rich collections that reflect on the diverse contributions achievements and experience of the African American and the African diaspora. This event was really informative and also had valuable teachings about our African American
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