Saint Martin’s Harvie Social Justice Lecture features
award-winning historian
October 16, 2012
LACEY, WASHINGTON — Drawing on Martin Luther King Jr.’s writings
and speeches, Michal Honey, Ph.D., will engage the Saint Martin’s
community in a discussion exploring new directions to take in the
wake of the 2012 elections. Honey’s lecture, “Post-Election 2012:
Revisiting Martin Luther King’s Unfinished Agenda,” is the next
event in the 2012-13 Robert A. Harvie Social Justice Lecture Series.
The lecture will take place at 4 p.m., Friday, Nov. 9, in Harned
Hall, room 110, on the Saint Martin’s University campus, 5000 Abbey
Way SE. The free event, followed by a book signing and social hour
with the author, is open to the public.
A former civil rights and civil liberties organizer in the 1970s,
Honey holds the Fred T. and Dorothy G. Haley Endowed Professorship
in the Humanities at the University of Washington, Tacoma and
previously held the university system's Harry Bridges Chair of Labor
Studies. He authored Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike,
Martin Luther King's Last Campaign, and other books of labor and
civil rights history. His Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of
Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle (1999) received an
award from the Southern Historical Association (SHA), among others,
and his Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis
Workers (1993) won SHA and Organization of American Historian
awards. In 1985 Honey won the OAH's Charles Thomson Prize for his
article on white Unionist resistance to the Confederacy. His talks
are well known for taking a critical perspective on the past and
present, using narrative, images, and song.
The Robert A. Harvie Social Justice Lecture Series, now in its
seventh year, was created by Saint Martin’s University Associate
Professor of Criminal Justice Robert Hauhart, Ph.D., J.D., chair of
the University’s Department of Society and Social Justice, to raise
awareness of social justice issues within the community and to honor
the work of Robert A. Harvie, J.D., former professor and chair of
the Department of Criminal Justice at Saint Martin’s.
Saint Martin’s University is an independent four-year,
coeducational university located on a wooded campus of more than 300
acres in Lacey, Washington. Established in 1895 by the Catholic
Order of Saint Benedict, the University is one of 14 Benedictine
colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, and the
only one west of the Rocky Mountains. Saint Martin’s University
prepares students for successful lives through its 23 majors and
seven graduate programs spanning the liberal arts, business,
education, nursing and engineering. Saint Martin’s welcomes more
than 1,100 undergraduate students and 400 graduate students from
many ethnic and religious backgrounds to its Lacey campus, and 300
more undergraduate students to its extension campuses located at
Joint Base Lewis-McChord and Centralia College. Visit the Saint
Martin’s University website at
www.stmartin.edu.
Robert Hauhart, Ph. D., J.D.
Chair, Department of Society and Social Justice
360-438-4525;
rhauhart@stmartin.edu
Sarah Holdener
Director of community relations and event management
Office of Marketing and Communications
Saint Martin’s University
360-412-6140;
sholdener@stmartin.edu