This Friday Washington and Lee's Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice is putting on a conference celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I'm very much looking forward to being in Lexington for the conference and also, weather permitting, for a lunch talk to the students on Thursday, on ideas about slavery, freedom and secession at Washington College before the Civil War. (Here's a video of a similar talk I gave a few years back at W&L.) (Washington and Lee added Lee to the name after Robert E. Lee passed away. Lee was president of Washington College following the end of the War.)
