ALBC National Town Hall - Atlanta (Public Event)

2009-12-09

ALBC Event

The Carter Center

Atlanta

Georgia

ALBC National Town Hall - Atlanta

Theme: Unfinished Work: Race, Civility and Equality of Opportunity - A National Town Hall on Race in Atlanta

Wednesday, December 2 and Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Cecil B. Day Chapel
The Carter Center
One Copenhill
453 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30307

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Reception
6:00 – 8:30 p.m. Town Hall Event

FREE and open to the public

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Dr. Stephen L. Carter, Yale University William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, best-selling author whose latest novel, Jericho’s Fall, and recognized by Time magazine as one of the top 50 leaders for the 21st century delivers the keynote address.

Panelists Include: 

Dr. Orville Vernon Burton, ALBC Foundation Board Member and author of The Age of Lincoln;

Jerry Gonzalez , executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials; 

Manisha Sinha, Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Frank McCloskey, Past chair of the Atlanta Urban League and current Vice President of Diversity for Georgia Power.

MODERATOR:  Angela Robinson, Host of In Contact on Public Broadcasting Atlanta.

The ALBC Town Hall Series is made possible with support from the Fetzer Institute.

Atlanta co-conveners to date:

• American Friends Service Committee-Southeastern Regional Office 
• American Jewish Committee Atlanta 
• Anti-Defamation League 
• APEX Museum
• Atlanta Daybook 
• Atlanta History Center
• Atlanta Regional Commission 
• Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education 
• Atlanta Urban League 
• Bahai Community of Atlanta 
• Civic League for Regional Atlanta 
• Clayton State University
• Communities in Schools Atlanta 
• Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta 
• Emory University- Center for Ethics 
• Emory University- Transforming Community Project
• Exploritas 
• Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) 
• Georgia Commission on the Holocaust 
• Georgia Humanities Council 
• Hands on Atlanta 
• Intergenerational Dialogue Counseling Service
• Istanbul Center 
• Jimmy Carter Presidential Library 
• Kennesaw State University- Center for the Study of the Civil War Era 
• Latin American Association 
• Morehouse College 
• NAACP-Atlanta Branch 
• National Archives-Southeast Region, Morrow 
• National Center for Civil and Human Rights 
• Oglethorpe Museum of Art 
• Oglethorpe University 
• OneWorld Archives 
• RainbowPUSH Coalition 
• Representative Georganna Sinkfield, District 60 
• Representative Margaret Kaiser HD-59 
• Rialto Center for the Arts-Georgia State University 
• Save the Family Institute 
• UNCF Institute for Capacity Building (UNCF-ICB) 
• United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta 
• University of Georgia Press 
• Wren’s Nest 
  
  
  

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