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What Barack Obama’s Election Means to America
The Z. Smith Reynolds Library proudly announces the first event of the Spring 2009 ZSR Library Lecture Series, “The Dream Realized? What Barack Obama’s Election Means to America.” This program will honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and commemorate the history-making inauguration of our nation’s 44th president with a panel presentation featuring Wake Forest University faculty, staff and students. The panelists will share their personal reflections on the election of President Barack Obama.
Following opening remarks by Lynn Sutton, ZSR Library Director, speakers will include
- Fred Parent, WFU student, reading his father’s essay, “What to the African American is the Fourth of November,”
- Rhon Manigault, Assistant Professor of Religion,
- Jermyn Davis, WFU Student Government President,
- Matt Tripplett, WFU Student Government Speaker of the House,
- Wanda Brown, Associate Director, ZSR Library,
- James Bryant, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies, and
- Richard Heard, Associate Professor of Music.
Please join us in the library atrium on Inauguration Day, Tuesday, January 20 at 4 p.m. Light refreshments will follow the presentation.