The Senator and the Sharecropper with Myers Asch

2011 Moments of Truth Lecture and Book Signing

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
Center for the Arts Lobby

The Humanities and Social Sciences' Interdisciplinary Curriculum Collaborative's annual Moments of Truth lecture features Dr. Chris Myers Asch, author of The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer.  

The lecture will be followed by a question and answer session with audience members and book signing.  The Senator and the Sharecropper is available for purchase at the event, before and after the lecture.

The lecture is free and open to the public. 

The Senator and the Sharecropper is described by The New Press as  "the epic struggle for black equality in the 20th century told through the deeply-intertwined life histories of the staunch segregatioist ans his sharecropper nemesis."   Read More >>

Chris Myers Asch Biography >>

The Moments of Truth Program is an initiative of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences' Interdisciplinary Curriculum Collaborative (ICC). The ICC includes the following academic units: Bachelor of Individualized Studies, Cultural Studies, the Higher Education Program, the Honors College, Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, New Century College, and Women and Gender Studies. These programs have identified the subject of ethics as a unifying theme, while recognizing that questions and issues of ethics permeate every academic discipline, major, and profession.

Sponsored by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences' Interdisciplinary Curriculum Collaborative.