Filmmaker Joanne Williams will give the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture and serve as the keynote speaker at the Justice in Action Conference, a one-day, student-focused conference that explores each of our roles in service, community and social change.
The Arrupe Center for Community Service and Social Responsibility will host the conference on Saturday, March 29, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Alumni Memorial Union.
Williams is a film festival award winner for the documentary “The Exchange: Kaukauna & King 50 Years Later” (2022), which highlights an exchange program between Rufus King High School, a predominantly Black school, and Kaukauna High School, a predominantly white school, here in Wisconsin during the 1960s.
Fifty years after the program, the original performers reunite to reflect on their experience and watch as a new generation reprises their performance of Martin Duberman’s “In White America.”
The documentary will be screened on Wednesday, March 26, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Weasler Auditorium. Williams will join Marquette students for a talkback following the screening.
Williams will speak as part of the conference on March 29 from 10 a.m. to 10:50 a.m.
Register for the conference by Saturday, March 15. Those interested in just attending the lecture and screening should register here.
