Video from the keynote is available upon request in the College Archives.<\/a><\/p>\n Master of Ceremonies:<\/strong> James L. Reese, Associate Dean of Students<\/p>\n Music:<\/strong> Three Point Jazz Trio (beginning at 8:45am)<\/p>\n Overview:<\/strong> Matthew R. Auer, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty<\/p>\n Welcome and Introduction of U.S. Sen. Angus King:<\/strong> A. Clayton Spencer, President of Bates College<\/p>\n Remarks by U.S. Sen. Angus S. King Jr.: A Reminiscence of His Participation in the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom<\/strong> Interlude: Music and readings dedicated to Marian Anderson, Mahalia Jackson, and Camilla Williams, by the Bates Gospelaires and Emily Wright-Magoon.<\/strong> Introduction of Keynote Speaker:<\/strong> Charles Nero, Professor of Rhetoric, African American Studies and American Cultural Studies.<\/p>\n Keynote Address by Gary Younge: Reclaiming King\u2019s Dream: Decoding the Myths and the Meaning of the Civil Rights Era<\/strong> Video from the debate is available upon request in the College Archives.<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nSen. King was sworn in as Maine\u2019s first Independent U.S. senator in 2013. He has worked as an attorney, a television host and an entrepreneur in the energy industry, and served two terms in the 1990s as Maine\u2019s governor.<\/p>\n
\nAnderson, Williams, and Jackson were pioneering African American artists in classical and gospel music. During the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Anderson sang the spiritual \u201cHe\u2019s Got the Whole World in His Hands\u201d; Williams, \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d; and Jackson, the gospel anthem \u201cHow I Got Over.\u201d We honor these women for their contributions to an event in which men typically provided the voices and visions.<\/p>\n
\nYounge is an award-winning columnist for the British newspaper The Guardian. He is the author of The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s Dream (Haymarket Books, 2013), an analysis of the continuing resonance of the I Have a Dream speech 50 years after its delivery at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In 2009, Younge received the prestigious James Cameron Prize for his reports on the election of Barack Obama.<\/p>\n1\u20132:45pm | The Reverend Benjamin Elijah Mays Debate, Olin Concert Hall<\/h3>\n
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