University of Wyoming Group Begins Black History Month Celebration
The University of Wyoming’s Association of Black Student Leaders (ABSL) has organized events throughout the month of February for Black History Month.
The first will be a lunch panel discussion titled, “Daydreaming: An Evolution of Student Activism.” The panel is divided into three parts that explore students’ role in protesting: A dedication of the 50th anniversary of “Freedom Summer” (In the summer of 1964, college students initiated a movement to allow African-Americans the right to vote in Mississippi); students’ role in the “Black Power” movement from a national to local level; and finally contemporary forms of protest for students regarding racial justice.
The lunch panel discussion is February 4, 2014 at 12:15 p.m. in the Wyoming Union West Ballroom.