ALBC Town Hall – Los Angeles
Lincoln and King’s Unfinished Work
January 17, 2010
The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion – Grand Hall
The Music Center
135 North Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Held on Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, Lincoln and King’s Unfinished Work explored President Lincoln’s significant role in expanding the nation’s definitions of freedom and equality of opportunity and how Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s work 100 years later reflected in that tradition. Los Angeles, “the Entertainment Capital of the World” provides the perfect setting to also discuss how words, entertainment and the arts impact race and freedom in the United States.
Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., ALBC Commissioner
Ronald C. White, historian and author of A. Lincoln: A Biography
Warren Furutani, California Assembly member (55th District)
Harry V. Jaffa, historian, author and distinguished fellow at The Claremont Institute (Professor Emeritus at Claremont McKenna College)
Rev. Eric P. Lee, SCLC-LA President/CEO
Tom Schwartz, Illinois State Historian
Andy Anderson, chief historian-Wells Fargo & Co.,
Dr. Darline Robels, Superintendent at Los Angeles County Suptschools
Stedman Graham, entrepreneur and motivational speaker, moderated.
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The ALBC Town Hall Series is made possible with support from the Fetzer Institute.
Co-Conveners
The ALBC would like to thank the following co-conveners for their support in making the Los Angeles town hall a success.
- ALBC Commissioner Louise Taper
- Antelope Valley Best Babies Collaborative/Antelope Valley Partners for Health
- California Community Foundation
- California Council for the Humanities
- Center for Governmental Studies
- The Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law (CHRCL)
- Christ Liberation Ministries (Pastors William & Thembekila Smart)
- The Claremont Institute
- CRSP Institute for Urban Eco Villages
- Daniel Lowenstein, Director-UCLA Center for the Liberal Arts and Free Institutions
- Daymond R. Johnson, City of Los Angeles South Central Neighborhood Council
- Downtown Women’s Center
- El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument/Olvera Street
- Ethiopian-American Chamber of Commerce
- Exploritas
- Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
- “I Have a Dream” Foundation – Los Angeles
- Japanese American National Museum
- John Stauffer, Harvard University historian and author
- Latino Museum of History, Art & Culture
- Los Angeles County Office of Education
- Los Angeles City Historical Society
- Los Angeles Conservation Corps
- Los Angeles County Office of Education
- Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
- Los Angeles NAACP
- Montebello Housing Development Corporation
- Muslims for Progressive Values
- New Frontier Young Democrats
- The Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
- Operation HOPE
- Our Authors Study Club, Inc. / Los Angeles Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc.
- SCLC of Greater Los Angeles
- The Skirball Cultural Center
- UCLA Asian American Studies Center
- United We Mentor-AVPH