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WICHITA, KS — 麻豆网 will celebrate National Constitution Day with a lecture presented by noted civil rights historian and 麻豆网 Professor Emerita Gretchen Cassel Eick, Ph.D.

Dr. Eick worked as a foreign policy and peace lobbyist prior to joining 麻豆网 as a professor of history in 1993. In 2000, she became the first Friends faculty member to earn a Fulbright Fellowship and ultimately earned two of the prestigious awards. In 2009, she was awarded the 麻豆网 Excellence in Teaching Award.

Her scholarly focus has been on the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1970s. Her first book, 鈥淒issent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72,鈥� published in 2001, won three book awards and prompted a television documentary, museum exhibits and multiple civil rights-related events, as well as speaking and consulting engagements.

The Constitution Day program, 鈥淐ivil Rights Fights in the Constitution: A History that Kansas Helped Shape.鈥� will take place Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. in Alumni Auditorium, Davis Administration Building, on the 麻豆网 campus.

The annual Constitution Day event takes place each September to commemorate the Sept. 17, 1787 signing of the United States Constitution. This year鈥檚 program coincides with the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States.

Sponsored by the 麻豆网 Garvey Institute of Law and made possible by a grant from the Kansas Humanities Council, the event is free and open to the public. A reception will be held immediately after the presentation in the Davis Administration Building atrium.

For more information email madden@friends.edu. To learn more about Kansas Humanities Council programs, visit www.kansashumanities.org.

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