On Wednesday, Oct. 28 Emory University in DeKalb County will welcome the  Rev. Dr. Bernard LaFayette as the speaker for its annual Howard Thurman Lecture

Those interested in the Civil Rights Movement or Black Chruch Studies may want to take special note of the free public event that will be held at 11 a.m. in room 102 of the theology school building, 1531 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322. The Thurman Lecture, named for pastor, poet, critic and educator the Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman, is sponsored by the school's Program of Black Church Studies.

LaFayette, now a distinguished senior scholar-in-residence at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, is a longtime civil rights activist, organizer and authority on nonviolent social change. He co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960, and was a core leader of the civil rights movement in Nashville, Tenn., in 1960 and in Selma, Ala., in 1965. He directed the Alabama Voter Registration Project in 1962 and was appointed by Martin Luther King Jr., to be national program administrator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and national coordinator of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign.

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