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Lowell Lecture

Bending Toward Justice

Date & Time

Nov. 3, 2019 at 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Location

John F. Kennedy Library
Columbia Point Boston, MA 02125
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Speaker(s)

Senator Doug Jones, William Baxley, Margaret Burnham (moderator)

Presenting Organization

John F. Kennedy Library

Topics

History

Contact

Kennedy Library Forums (jfkforums@nara.gov, 617-514-1643)

Senator Doug Jones, author of Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights, and William Baxley, former Attorney General of Alabama, discuss the decades-long efforts to prosecute the 16th Street Baptist Church bombers. Margaret Burnham, professor and founder and director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University, moderates.