Expanding Democratic Horizons - Institute for Learning in Retirement (ILR)- Albertus Magnus College

Post date: Mar 14, 2012 11:43:53 AM

http://www.ilralbertus.org/Session Dates: This is a three session program

Friday, April 20. 2012, Dare To Teach, The Life and Legacy of Prudence Crandall

Friday, April 27, 2012 Ebenezer D. Bassett, The Life and Times of a Quiet American Hero

Friday, May 4, 2012, The Vote!: The Seventy Year Fight for Women’s Suffrage

Time: 1:30 – 3:00

Location: Albertus Magnus College, Aquinas Hall

This three session course explores the theme of the growth of the democratic system in American History. Through the lives, struggles, and accomplishments of ordinary and extraordinary Americans, events of American history and American society, the theme of an expanding democracy is explored. In these three sessions the elements of increased opportunity, equality, and civil rights will be explored. The first session begins with the story of Prudence Crandall, the Connecticut State Heroine, who in the 1830s dared to establish a school for young black girls in Canterbury, Connecticut. The second session explores the life and times of a quiet American hero, Ebenezer D. Bassett, the first black ambassador from the United States. The third session brings the titanic seventy year struggle for women’s suffrage to the audience through period photos, political cartoons, and editorials, and examines the lives of the women who devoted their lives to the cause so that future generations of American women would have the right to participate fully in American society.