The First Amendment and the Civil Rights Movement: Our History, Our Present, Our Future
Monday, 12 Apr 2021 at 5:30 pm – See link below
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/xGAzq0ej_jAFirst Amendment Days Event
Robert Bickel, professor emeritus of law at Stetson University College of Law, and Gene Policinski, senior fellow for the First Amendment at the Freedom Forum, are authors of “The First Amendment and the Civil Rights Movement,†created with the support of Stetson University and the Freedom Forum.
Gene Policinski is chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum Institute and of the Institute’s First Amendment Center. A veteran multimedia journalist, he also writes, lectures, and is interviewed regularly on First Amendment issues. Policinski, a founding editor of USA Today, oversees all programs of the Freedom Forum Institute and also is a longtime proponent of diversity in journalism as an essential characteristic of a free press. He speaks and writes regularly on news gathering and reporting, newsroom diversity and on journalism ethics.
Robert Bickel taught at Stetson for almost 40 years. His national awards include the American Bar Association's Harrison Tweed Award for Continuing Legal Education and the Florida Bar's Faculty Professionalism Award. In 1994, he was elected to the American Law Institute and he is a fellow of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Joining Stetson's faculty in 1978, Professor Bickel served as assistant dean and created the law school's first federal civil procedure course. Professor Bickel created and launched the National Conference on Law and Higher Education.
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