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Past Lectures

The Durr Family has hosted a lecture series that is free and open to the public for over 30 years. Learn about our past events and lecturers.

2024

We began 2024 DLW at the Frank Johnson Jr Federal Courthouse with a panel discussion about the Supreme Court. Judge Myron Thompson inspired students from local Montgomery public schools with the powerful history of his courtroom.

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Barbara Phillips led an assembly at Percy Julian High School in Montgomery with special guests and featured fantastic student performances of their own poetry.​

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student audience at

Percy Julian High School

Daryl Thomas

Corey Jackson

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Guest Tawny Algood

with Barbara Phillips

Madison Thompson

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Trencey Grant

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Antonio Elliott

Barbara Phillips

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See her interview with WLP here​

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Hasan Kwame Jeffries 

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Watch his speech at Historic First Baptist Church here

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2023

Martha Prescod Norman Noonan

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See her interview with WFSA news before her lecture here

 

 

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Judge J. Michelle Childs

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See Judge Childs' Lecture at Historic First Baptist Church here

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2022

Patricia Sullivan

 

See Dr. Sullivan speak about her book, Justice Rising here

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2019

Richard Gergel

Listen to Gergel speak about his book, 

Unexampled Courage here

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2018

Cornel West

Watch the lecture at Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church here

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2017

James Forman, Jr.

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Watch Forman discuss his book “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America” on Democracy Now! here

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2016

Clark Johnson

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Watch his acceptance speech at the Peabody awards for his film Boycott (2001) here

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2015

Paul Chappell

Watch a conversation with Chappell about Peace literacy here

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​2014

Steve Hahn

Hackney Symposium Speakers

Raymond Arsenault
Orville Vernon Burton
Patrician Sullivan
Declan McBride

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2013

Vernon Jordan

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2012

Robert S. Graetz
Andrew Grace

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2011

Raymond Arsenault

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Watch Arsenault speak on Democracy and the ICC desegregation order from the film "Freedom Riders"here

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2010

James K. Galbraith

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2009

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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2008

Bryan Stevenson

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2007

Jonathan Steele

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2006

Taylor Branch

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2005

J. Mills Thornton

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2004

Patricia Sullivan
Morris Dees

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2003

Diane McWhorter
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth

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2002

Robert Ellis Smith
David Risser

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2001

Blanche Weisen Cook

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2000

Congressman John Lewis

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1999

Geoffrey Cowan

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1998

Wayne Flynt
Patricia Sullivan

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1997

Studs Terkel
Charles Morgan Jr.

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1996

John Kenneth Galbraith
Johnnie Rebecca Carr

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1995

John Doar
Ray Jenkins
Burke Marshall
George Washington Carver Richardson Jr.

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1994

Art Buchwald

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1993

Hugo Black Jr.
Sheldon Hackney

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1992

Lady Bird Johnson
Fred Gray
Thomas Johnson

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