These Values We Take To Heart: The King Legacy on Organizing January 27, 2005

---Special MLK Symposium Event---
---These Values We Take To Heart: The King Legacy on Organizing---
---Thursday, January 27, 2005---
---Hussey Room, Michigan League---
---4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.---

Rev. Dr. Kevin Turman
Grace Lee Boggs
Professor Matthew Countryman

Rev. Dr. Turman is the chief pastor at Detroit's famous Second Baptist
Church and the president of MOSES (Metropolitan Organizing Strategies
Enabling Strength), the powerful Detroit-based, congregation-centered
community organizing initiative, whose members include over 70
congregations of all faiths, University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan
University, UofM's Hillel, University of Detroit Mercy, and other
institutions. Dr. Turman is also the former President of the
Progressive National Baptist Convention and serves on the President's
Steering Committee of Gamaliel, the national inter-faith network of
community organizing institutions.

Grace Lee Boggs is a legendary figure in Detroit and nationally renowned
activist, writer, and advocate for civil rights and educational reform.
She is the head of the Boggs Center in Detroit which serves as a haven
for innovative thought and grassroots community-building initiatives
such as AC3T, Adamah, Detroit Summer, Freedom Schools, and the Chinatown
Workgroup. She was also the 2003 MLK Symposium Keynote Speaker.

Professor Matthew Countryman is an Assistant Professor in the History
and American Culture departments at the University of Michigan.
Professor Countryman is a former GROW organizer himself and a scholar
whose focus is on race and gender construction, right-wing social
movements, the populist movement, and the civil rights movement.