HumanitiesAR invites you to attend its 2022-2023 professional development lecture series, Bending Towards Justice.
This series explores the meaning of a truly democratic society and how voting rights have changed over the years. You will hear from scholars, historians, and authors presenting various aspects of voting rights history in Arkansas and the United States.
Upcoming
Save the Dates: April 6
Spring 2023 sessions are tailored to elementary teachers. Programs will take place in person at the Clinton Presidential Library Education Classroom. The March session targets 3-5th grade teachers and the April event is for PreK-2nd grade teachers.
Session content includes highlights from the fall lectures, hands-on activity instruction, special guest presenters and a VIP tour of the “Women’s Voices, Women’s Votes, Women’s Rights” exhibit, along with takeaway classroom resources and door prizes. The lectures will also be recorded and made available online after the event.
Registration for professional development credit is required for all March and April attendees. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and resources that you can use in your classroom. Register today!
See more past lectures from this series below.
Past Lectures
Three of the five lectures are available for viewing on the HumanitiesAR website. The first session, led by Dr. Thomas DeBlack and Dr. Joe Key, discussed voting rights history in Arkansas from 1700-1900.
Watch the “Votes for ALL Women: Women of Color and the Fight for Suffrage,” a panel discussion featuring Dr. Marjorie Spruill, Dr. Cathleen Cahill, and Latonya Wilson here. The roundtable, moderated by Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch, includes a discussion of the Women’s Suffrage movement, touching on women included and excluded in the movement and the Nineteenth Amendment. The event was made possible by the Clinton Presidential Library, the Clinton School of Public Service, the Clinton Foundation, and HumanitiesAR.
The third session featured Dr. John Kirk, a George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He discussed voting and civil rights in Arkansas from the 1890s to the present.