Keep Moving Forward:
Rhetorical Strategies Regarding GLBTQ Issues
A panel event featuring:
Professor David McGowan
Professor Miranda McGowan
Professor Dale Carpenter
March 25 from 12:00PM - 12:50PM in WH 3C
Come learn about the rhetorical strategies used in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and ways to adapt them to today’s political climate. The panel will focus on using the techniques taught by Bayard Rustin, one of the integral figures in the 1960’s civil rights movement, and how the average citizen can use those techniques to repair the damage to civil and human rights after the passage of Prop. 8.
Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American civil rights activist, important largely behind the scenes in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and earlier, and principal organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He counseled Martin Luther King, Jr. on the techniques of nonviolent resistance. Rustin was openly gay [1] and advocated on behalf of gay and lesbian causes in the latter part of his career.A year before his death in 1987, Rustin said:
"The barometer of where one is on human rights questions is no longer the black community, it's the gay community. Because it is the community which is most easily mistreated."
ALL ARE WELCOME
Lunch Will Be Served
Rhetorical Strategies Regarding GLBTQ Issues
A panel event featuring:
Professor David McGowan
Professor Miranda McGowan
Professor Dale Carpenter
March 25 from 12:00PM - 12:50PM in WH 3C
Come learn about the rhetorical strategies used in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and ways to adapt them to today’s political climate. The panel will focus on using the techniques taught by Bayard Rustin, one of the integral figures in the 1960’s civil rights movement, and how the average citizen can use those techniques to repair the damage to civil and human rights after the passage of Prop. 8.
Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American civil rights activist, important largely behind the scenes in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and earlier, and principal organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He counseled Martin Luther King, Jr. on the techniques of nonviolent resistance. Rustin was openly gay [1] and advocated on behalf of gay and lesbian causes in the latter part of his career.A year before his death in 1987, Rustin said:
"The barometer of where one is on human rights questions is no longer the black community, it's the gay community. Because it is the community which is most easily mistreated."
ALL ARE WELCOME
Lunch Will Be Served
