Wednesdays – Famous Women Activists
11/20 & 11/27 @1:00 PM/CH
Instructor: Harriet Hendel
11/20 FAMOUS WOMEN ACTIVISTS (final class in the series)
Title: Susan Burton – author of Becoming Ms. Burton
Former inmate and drug addict. Winner of CNN Heroes Award
Founder of “A New Way of Life”.
11/27 “HIGHER EDUCATION BEHIND BARS”
We will explore the concept of college classes and degrees being offered to men and women in prison. Ken Burns has made a series of 4 films which we will watch and discuss. Burns is well known for many documentaries (The Civil War, Vietnam, Baseball, F.D.R., Jackie Robinson and more).
