Join LAWCHA for a film showing (of Love & Solidarity) and discussion at the Organization of American Historians in Providence, Rhode Island, 9am (#oah 16_63). The panel, entitled “Nonviolence Leadership: The Life and Times of Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr.,” will feature Michael Honey, Dennis Dickerson, and Frances Jones-Sneed.
What can ordinary people do to change a world full of violence and hate? Is nonviolent revolution possible?
These questions and others will be addressed in the film by Michael Honey and Errol Webber, Love and Solidarity.
Rosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among others. She is working on The Illinois Mine Wars, 1860-1940 and a new biography of Mary Harris “Mother” Jones.
