2008 Woodie Awards
Civil Rights Veteran to Speak on Campus
Epps served as a close ally to Dr. King
Odessey Washington
Issue date: 2/10/08 Section: News
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Epps, 71, is well-known because he invited Dr. King to Memphis, Tenn., in 1968 to help rally on behalf of the striking sanitation workers. Tragically, King was assassinated.
"I am very excited to have been invited to Lincoln University," says Epps, who is currently the founder of the National Union of American Families, a Philadelphia-based non-profit organizations that advocates on behalf of American families. "We must work to keep Dr. King's dream alive and work toward social justice."
Epps will be on campus on Feb. 21, 2008 and will deliver a 4 p.m. lecture at the Mary Dod Memorial Chapel. He will also visit with journalism students on campus. The lecture is opened to the public and is sponsored by the English and Mass Communications Department and the School of Humanities.
"Mr. Epps is an icon in the Civil Rights Movement," said Eric Watson, a professor of journalism at Lincoln who was instrumental in bringing Epps to campus. "We want our students to interview and talk to Mr. Epps and learn about his story and his involvement in the movement."
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Asuma Kelvin Williams
posted 2/13/08 @ 7:07 PM EST
It is very pleasant to hear that there is somebody close to the late Dr. Martin Luther King., Jr. who is an activist and advocate of social justice. Sensitizing and educating people about civil rights broadens their scope of understanding and almost always prompt them to effect good conducts in society. (Continued…)
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