8:30 - 9:00 Registration; light breakfast available
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome & Introductions
9:15 - 10:15 Michael West: “Radicalism of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Q&A
10:15 - 11:15 Ray Arsenault: “Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Riders,” Q&A
11:30 - 12:30 Workshops
  • Michael West: “Teaching about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement”
  • Patrick Rael: “Hollywood’s Depiction of the Civil Rights Movement”
  • Gerald Talbot and Rabbi Harry Sky: “Maine During the Civil Rights Movement”
  • Ray Arsenault: “From Nonviolence to Black Power”
12:30 - 1:15 Lunch
1:15 - 2:15 Linda Docherty: “Photography and the Civil Rights Movement,” Q&A
2:15 - 3:00 Panel Discussion moderated by Rachel Talbot Ross, President of the NAACP Portland Branch: “Do We Honor Martin Luther King, Jr. for the Right Reasons?”