FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 20, 2007
AUTHORITY ON NONVIOLENT SOCIAL CHANGE TO SPEAK AT QVCC
Dr.
Bernard Lafayette, distinguished-scholar-in-residence and director of the
Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island,
will speak at Quinebaug Valley Community College on Wednesday, November 28,
at 7:00 pm.
Dr. Lafayette, a civil rights movement activist, minister, educator, and
lecturer, is an authority on the strategy on nonviolent social change. An
ordained minister, he earned his B.A. from the American Baptist Theological
Seminary and his Ed.M. and Ed.D from Harvard University. He has served on
the faculties of Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta and Alabama State
University in Montgomery, where he was dean of the Graduate School. He also
was principal of Tuskegee Institute High School in Tuskegee, Alabama and a
teaching fellow at Harvard University.
Co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960,
Dr. Lafayette was a leader of the Nashville Movement, the Freedom Rides, and
the 1965 Selma Movement. He directed the Alabama Voter Registration Project
in 1962 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.
Dr. Lafayette chairs the International Nonviolence Executive Planning Board
and serves as chairman for the Rhode Island Select Commission on Race and
Police-Community Relations.
The lecture will be held in the Robert Miller Auditorium at the Danielson
campus. The public is invited to attend and there is no admission charge.
For more information contact Nan Hirst at 412-7256.
CONTACT
Margie Huoppi
Publications Associate
(860) 774-1133
mhuoppi@qvcc.commnet.edu