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Selma to Montgomery: Marching Along the Civil Rights Trail<\/a><\/h2>\n

February 27\u2013April 12 (see March 12 opening information, below)<\/h4>\n

An exhibition of photographs by Stephen Somerstein
\n<\/em>Center for Art and Dance,\u00a0Flaten Art Museum<\/p>\n

Selma to Montgomery: Marching Along the Voting Rights Trail\u00a0<\/i>documents the quest for democracy and social justice through 45 photographs from the archives of Stephen Somerstein, then college student and editor-in-chief and picture editor of the City College of New York<\/em> newspaper. His photographs reveal the nonviolent discipline of the marchers and movement\u2019s leaders, and depict the Alabama onlookers who found themselves at the heart of a national battle. As present-day demonstrations against racial injustice occupy the nation\u2019s attention, Somerstein\u2019s photographs illuminate a resonant chapter in the black freedom struggle.<\/p>\n

Alabama Return: Life in Segregated Alabama<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n

March 2, noon<\/h4>\n

Buntrock Commons, Viking Theater<\/p>\n

This 30-minute film,\u00a0produced by St. Olaf alumnus Jeff Strate \u201966 and widely aired on PBS, documents the experiences of 65 St. Olaf students who volunteered for the Tuskegee Institute Summer Education Program in the summer of 1965.<\/p>\n

Gallery Talk<\/a><\/h2>\n

March 2, 3:45 p.m.<\/h4>\n

Center for Art and Dance,\u00a0Flaten Art Museum<\/p>\n

Tonya Kjerland \u201990\u00a0will share how her late husband, David Kjerland \u201965, drew inspiration for his art from his experiences as a volunteer in the Tuskegee Institute Summer Education Program (TISEP) in 1965.<\/p>\n

Alabama Return: Life in Segregated Alabama<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n

March 4, noon<\/h4>\n

Buntrock Commons, Viking Theater<\/p>\n

This 30-minute film,\u00a0produced by St. Olaf alumnus Jeff Strate \u201966 and widely aired on PBS, documents the experiences of 65 St. Olaf students who volunteered for the Tuskegee Institute Summer Education Program in the summer of 1965.<\/p>\n

Gallery Talk<\/a><\/h2>\n

March 4, 3:45 p.m.<\/h4>\n

Center for Art and Dance,\u00a0Flaten Art Museum<\/p>\n

Sheryl Anderson Renslo \u201966 along with Jeff Strate \u201966, filmmaker of\u00a0Alabama Return: Life in Segregated Alabama<\/em>, produced for Twin Cities Public Television in 1996, recounts how their\u00a0experiences\u00a0as St. Olaf students participating in the Tuskegee Institute Summer Education Program (TISEP) in 1965 forever changed the way they see the world.<\/p>\n

Race, Policing, and Inner City Boys: Questioning the \u2018Broken Windows\u2019 Theory<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n

March 4, 7 p.m.<\/h4>\n

Buntrock Commons, Viking Theater (streamed and archived online<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n

Victor Rios, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara<\/p>\n

The Broken Windows Theory, which essentially states that preventing small crimes such as vandalism and public drinking prevents more serious crimes from happening, has come under sharp criticism recently from observers who think it has contributed to over-policing in America.\u00a0Rios\u2019s research tracks the corrosive effects of policing and the criminal justice system on low-income young people of color in Oakland, California. He reports about the ways in which black and Latino youth adapt to the constant harassment and humiliation of the \u201cyouth control complex\u201d on the streets and in school as enforced by police. Rios concludes that the result is a vicious cycle of criminalization and incarceration, and that these young men attempt to maintain their dignity in ways that often backfire, deepening their social and economic isolation.\u00a0Rios is the author of\u00a0Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Street Life: Poverty, Gangs, and a Ph.D.<\/i> His research interests include educational equity, restorative justice, resilience, motivation, and youth culture.<\/p>\n

Gallery Talk<\/a><\/h2>\n

March 6,\u00a0noon<\/h4>\n

Center for Art and Dance,\u00a0Flaten Art Museum<\/p>\n

Retired St. Olaf College Pastor Bruce Benson will share his experiences as an exchange student at Talladega College in Alabama during the winter and spring terms of 1966.<\/p>\n

Gallery Talk<\/a><\/h2>\n

March 9, 3:45 p.m.<\/h4>\n

Center for Art and Dance,\u00a0Flaten Art Museum<\/p>\n

Associate College Archivist Jeff Sauve will share some of the information and materials found in the Shaw-Olson Center for College History<\/a>\u00a0about St. Olaf\u2019s role in both the civil rights and voting rights movements of the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Chapel service:\u00a0Creating Southern History<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n

March 10, 11:10 a.m.<\/h4>\n

Boe Memorial Chapel\u00a0(streamed live and archived online<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n

Listen to students describe\u00a0the 2015\u00a0Creating Southern History <\/i>Interim course that took them\u00a0to Alabama while retracing the history of the civil rights movement.<\/p>\n

Screening of the motion picture\u00a0Selma<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/h2>\n

March 10, 7 p.m.<\/h4>\n

Tomson Hall 280<\/p>\n

Selma<\/em>\u00a0chronicles the tumultuous\u00a0three-month period in 1965 when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from\u00a0Selma\u00a0to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava DuVernay\u2019s film\u00a0tells the real story of how the revered leader and visionary and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.<\/p>\n

Talk Back: From Selma to St. Olaf<\/a><\/h2>\n

March 10, 9 p.m.<\/h4>\n

Tomson Hall 280<\/p>\n

Anne and Leah Reeb will speak about the role their father and grandfather, James Reeb \u201950<\/a>, played in the voting rights movement.<\/p>\n

Gallery Talk<\/a><\/h2>\n

March 11,\u00a0noon<\/h4>\n

Center for Art and Dance,\u00a0Flaten Art Museum<\/p>\n

Anne and Leah Reeb will speak about the role their father and grandfather, James Reeb \u201950<\/a>, played in the voting rights movement.<\/p>\n

Two screenings of the motion picture\u00a0Selma<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/h2>\n

March 11, 7 and 9:30 p.m.<\/h4>\n

Tomson Hall 280<\/p>\n

Selma<\/em>\u00a0chronicles the tumultuous\u00a0three-month period in 1965 when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from\u00a0Selma\u00a0to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava DuVernay\u2019s film\u00a0tells the real story of how the revered leader and visionary and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.<\/p>\n

Immediately following the 7 p.m. screening, a student-moderated discussion and Q&A on the film will be held in the Tomson Hall East Lantern<\/b>. The discussion will be facilitated by the St. Olaf Cultural Union for Black Expression (CUBE), an organization that discusses issues relating to African American communities.<\/p>\n

Chapel service honoring\u00a0James Reeb \u201950<\/a><\/h2>\n

March 12, 11 a.m.<\/h4>\n

Boe Memorial Chapel (streamed live and archived online<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n

This chapel service will be dedicated to the legacy of the Rev. James Reeb \u201950<\/a> and the important role his life and death played in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Rev. Gilbert H. Caldwell, a fellow clergyman who traveled from Boston to Selma with Reeb, will speak\u00a0alongside Reeb\u2019s daughter Anne and granddaughter Leah.<\/p>\n

Rev. James Reeb Reflection Room Dedication<\/b><\/a><\/h2>\n

March 12, 11:45 a.m.<\/h4>\n

Rolvaag Memorial Library (lobby)<\/p>\n

After chapel join us in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to\u00a0dedicate a lasting memorial for the Rev.\u00a0James Reeb \u201950<\/a> and the more than 65 St. Olaf students who participated in activities in support of equality and inclusion in\u00a01964\u201366.<\/p>\n

From Selma to Stonewall: Continuing the Struggle for Inclusive Civil Rights<\/b><\/a><\/h2>\n

March 12, 3 p.m.<\/h4>\n

Buntrock Commons, Viking Theater<\/p>\n

Gilbert H. Caldwell is a retired United Methodist minister and a lifelong activist in the civil rights movement from the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer to the Million-Man March of 1996. He has\u00a0authored numerous books and blogs on social justice, including his latest collection, Something Within<\/i>. Caldwell\u00a0served several historic black churches in the Northeast, including Union Methodist in Boston and St. Mark\u2019s in Harlem. He also served as associated general secretary to the General Commission on Religion and Race in Washington, D.C., and as executive director of the Ministerial Interfaith Association of Harlem. He is a national board member of PFLAG, and is a co-founder of Truth in Progress.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Memorializing the Civil Rights Movement<\/b><\/a><\/h2>\n
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March 12, 4 p.m.<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

Center for Art and Dance 305<\/p>\n

Professor of History Michael W. Fitzgerald\u2019s Interim 2015 course\u00a0Experiencing Southern History<\/em>\u00a0examined how Alabama\u2019s official sites of memory \u2014\u00a0museums, monuments, and memorials \u2014\u00a0reflect the competing demands of politics, public attitudes, schools, and tourism. Fitzgerald will frame\u00a0the current Flaten exhibit<\/a> within the political context of Alabama in 1965 and draw on his course\u2019s weeklong Alabama visit to examine how the civil rights movement is memorialized 50 years later.<\/p>\n

Gallery reception for Selma to Montgomery: Marching Along the Voting Rights Trail<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n

March 12, 5\u20137 p.m.<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Center for Art and Dance, Flaten Art Museum<\/p>\n

This exhibition is generously supported by the Glen H. and Shirley Beito Gronlund Annual Exhibition Series Fund.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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