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.
2022
Patricia Sullivan
Interviewed by ASU Professor Derryn Moten
2017
James Forman, Jr.
2016
Clark Johnson
2015
Paul Chappell
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2014
Steve Hahn
Hackney Symposium Speakers
Raymond Arsenault
Orville Vernon Burton
Steve Hahn
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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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