Angela Davis, Mary Frances Berry to Speak at Penn's Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice

Angela Davis, Mary Frances Berry to Speak at University of Pennsylvania Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice

WHO:Angela Davis, activist and University of California at Santa Cruz

professor

Mary Frances Berry, Penn professor of history and former chair

of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission

WHAT:Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice:

A conversation about sexuality and social justice

WHEN:Jan. 21, 2005, 5:30 p.m.

WHERE:University of Pennsylvania

Irvine Auditorium

34th and Spruce streets

Angela Davis is a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and presidential chair in African American and Feminist Studies.

Mary Frances Berry is a professor of history at Penn and the former chairperson of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. She is the author of numerous books, including, "Long Memory: the Black Experience in America; Black Resistance/ White Law: a History of Constitutional Racism in America

The program is free and open to the public.  Limited tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis.  Tickets can be obtained in advance by calling 215-898-3900.