Worker’s Home Lecture – Media Coverage of Civil Rights, Shameful to Heroic

Newspapers, magazines, television, and radio played an important role in covering civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s. South Bend Tribune columnist Jack Colwell wrote about civil rights issues, local and national, going back to the 1960s. In his lecture “Media Coverage of Civil Rights, Shameful to Heroic” Colwell discusses long-time faults of the news media, including locally, and how news coverage then took down some of the most deplorable practices of discrimination. Before and after the program, guests are invited to tour the exhibit Undesign the Red Line and visit the Worker’s Home, now interpreted as a 1950s African American residence. Admission is $5/general; $3/members. Seating is limited. Reservations are strongly recommended. Buy tickets by clicking here