Charles E. Cobb, Jr. will be the guest lecturer at the John Gissendanner Memorial Lecture on Thursday, April 9, at 6:30pm in the Lecture Hall Building, room 238. His talk is entitled “SNCC: The Freedom Struggle & Lessons for Today.” Mr. Cobb was a Mississippi field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1962-67. A founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists, he was a foreign affairs reporter for National Public Radio, a correspondent for the PBS documentary Frontline, and a staff writer for National Geographic magazine. Mr. Cobb was a visiting professor at Brown University until last year and is currently a Duke University “scholar-activist.” The author of several books, the most recent is entitled This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the John Gissendanner Fund for the Study of African American Culture, the African and African American Studies program, the Center of Student Diversity, and the College of Liberal Arts. For more information, contact Dr. Donn Worgs at dworgs@towson.edu.
