October 30, 2007
Oklahoma Centennial Lecture Series
The Downtown College Consortium will offer a free public lecture entitled "Places Where We Have Cried" at Oklahoma City Community College on Thursday, November 1, from 1:30-3:00 pm in Room CU1 of the College Union.
The lecture presents a stirring chronicle of the Cherokee people. You have heard of the "Trail of Tears." Now find out why it really happened and why-before, during, and after-including: The key role famed American President Andrew Jackson played. How a white Christian missionary, after being jailed for his opposition to the Jackson Administration, battled all the way to the United States Supreme Court to defend the Cherokee people and their land. How the Cherokees warred-sometimes literally-for decades among themselves-and names like John Ross and Stand Watie rose high in the annals of Oklahoma-and American-history. Who the great Sequoyah really was, and what he really did for his people-and for America. How one of the most devastating chapters of the American Civil War raged for four years, right here in Oklahoma, with the Cherokees truly fighting "brother against brother."
The Oklahoma Centennial Lecture Series is an approved event of the Oklahoma Centennial Commission. The Oklahoma Centennial Lecture Series website is www.occc.edu/centennial. The Consortium is an alliance of five metro colleges and universities serving the downtown community. For more information, call (405) 232-3382, or go online to www.downtowncollege.com.
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