THIS WEDNESDAY is ‘When the Levees Broke’: The Un-Civil Rights Movement in America
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Posted by , March 24, 2008
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Carol Anderson, a history professor at the University of Missouri, will speak about When the Levees Broke: The Un-Civil Rights Movement in America on Wednesday, March 26 from 1:30-3 p.m. in the Kotzen Room.
Ms. Anderson’s talk will look at how Hurricane Katrina’s devastation was no accident, no mere blip of governmental incompetence, no confluence of the perfect storm and a sinking city. Instead, the human catastrophe in New Orleans was the result of decades of deliberate public policy decisions made and not made surprisingly enough, in the international realm.
This event is cosponsored by Simmons College Amnesty International, the Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change, the Office of Student Life, Black Student Organization, and the Minor in Social Justice. If you have any questions, please email amnesty@simmons.edu
