Student session with Civil Rights icon Bernard LaFayette Jr. set for April 6

Auburn University students are invited to participate in an afternoon session on the theory and practice of nonviolence with Bernard LaFayette Jr. on Thursday, April 6, from 4-6 p.m. at the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill.

LaFayette was a cofounder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a leader in the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins, a Freedom Rider, an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the national coordinator of the Poor People’s Campaign. He is an internationally recognized leader in nonviolence and the author of “In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma.”

The session is sponsored by the Philosophy Club and the Philosophy Department. Pebble Hill is located at 101 S. Debardeleben St. in Auburn, and parking is available. For more information, contact Jody Graham at grahaj2@auburn.edu or Mark Wilson at mwilson@auburn.edu.