A FREE EVENT

Lincoln and King’s

Unfinished Work
This Town Hall, being held on Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday, January 17, 2010
Weekend, will look at President Lincoln’s significant 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
role in expanding the nation’s definitions of freedom Doors open at 2:00 p.m.
and equality of opportunity and Dr. Martin Luther
The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
King, Jr.’s work in that tradition. And since this event
Grand Hall
is being held in “The Entertainment Capital of the The Music Center
World,” it will also discuss the ways that words, 135 North Grand Avenue
entertainment, and the arts are - and can be - used to Los Angeles, CA 90012
explore race and freedom in the United States.
RSVP at www.LincolnLivesOn.com

Participants:
Andy Anderson Congressman Rev. Eric P. Lee Dr. Darline Tom Schwartz
chief historian, Jesse Jackson, Jr. SCLC-LA President/ Robles Illinois State
Wells Fargo & Co. CEO Superintendent of the Historian
Harry V. Jaffa Los Angeles County
Richard Dreyfuss author, historian, distin- Suzan-Lori Parks Ronald C. White
Office of Education
actor guished fellow at The playwright author, A. Lincoln
Claremont Institute, Gary Ross
Stedman Graham Professor Emeritus at filmmaker
(moderator)
Claremont McKenna
entrepreneur/
College
motivational speaker

Conveners: California Community Foundation; California Council for the Humanities; Center for Governmental Studies; Christ Liberation
Ministries (Pastors William & Thembekila Smart); City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; City of Los Angeles South Central
Neighborhood Council; The Claremont Institute; CRSP Institute for Urban Eco Villages; Daniel Lowenstein, Director-UCLA Center for the Liberal
Arts and Free Institutions; 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, Historian/Harvard University; The Latino Museum of History, Art & Culture; The Los Angeles City
Historical Society; Los Angeles Conservation Corps; Los Angeles County Office of Education; Los Angeles NAACP; Louise Taper, ALBC Member;
Montebello Housing Development Corporation; Muslims for Progressive Values; The Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for
Communication & Journalism; Operation HOPE; SCLC of Greater Los Angeles; The Skirball Cultural Center; UCLA Asian American Studies Center; For more information, please call
United We Mentor-AVPH
888.591.6163
The Fetzer Institute of Kalamazoo, Michigan provided a major grant to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Foundation to Facebook: Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
produce the Lincoln Legacy Town Hall Meetings. Additional funding has been provided by Prudential, The Marjorie Kovler Fund, Twitter: @lincoln200yrs
McCormick Foundation, Motorola Foundation and Canadian National.