**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive an email with Zoom meeting information the week of the event.**

Talk followed by Q&A discussion, featuring UMass Lowell's Distinguished University Professor of History, Robert Forrant, PhD. 

On April 12, 1963, Good Friday, Dr. Martin Luther King was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, he subsequently wrote ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’. In part it read, “For years now I have heard the word, ‘Wait!’. It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This ‘Wait!’ has almost always meant, ‘Never’.” This justice delayed and denied boiled over in the 1950s and 1960s. With much fanfare, the Supreme Court rule on Brown v. the Board of Education, the Civil Rights (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965) got passed. What kinds of demonstrations took place that placed the civil rights agenda before the American people? What got done? What has happened in the recent past to call what progress there was into serious question.