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Frederick Douglass Institute (FDI) Lunch (En)Counter Series The FDI Lunch (En) Counter Lecture Series provides a forum for informed and interdisciplinary discussion of the major concerns facing global citizens. The monthly event gives speakers the opportunity to address provocative topics and to address current challenges of global development from a historic and/or contemporary perspective. The FDI have hosted influential speakers at noontime before a diverse audience of the general public, students, staff, faculty, and scholars in various fields. The Spring 2008 Series included discussions of the inequities revealed by Hurricane Katrina, the protest of Harlem Renaissance poets, and consumerism in fashion. The intentions of the FDI Lunch (En) Counter Lecture Series are to:
Background of the FDI Lunch (En) Counter Series Launching the FDI Brown Bag was a standing-room lecture entitled "The Domestic Terrorism of Lynching" presented by former FDI Scholar tonya thames taylor of the History Dept. Held one week after the 9/11 travesty, dr. thames taylor was very sensitive to the 9/11 event, but critical of comments that claimed that it was the first "terrorist" act in America. She contextualized the widely-accepted practice of lynching blacks among white Americans with the ideals of terrorism. In February 2008, C. James Trotman, Director of the Frederick Douglass Institute (FDI) and the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Educations (PASSHE), renamed the series to its current name. The current name pays tribute to the agency of four young men whose agitation for justice at a Woolworth Store's lunch encounter in 1960 led to the overturning of segregation policies throughout the nation. For more information on program and events of the Lecture Series, please send an e-mail to its Coordinator Dr. tonya thames taylor or Coordinator Graduate Assistant Mr. Brian Jones at fdouglass@wcupa.edu.
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