A Brother in the Spirit of Gandhi: William Stuart Nelson and Nonviolence in the Civil Rights Movement

This special Lecture/Discussion honors the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and his contribution to World Peace.

Dr. Dennis Dickerson, Lincoln University alumnus of 1971, will be lecture on the late Howard University Vice-President and Dean of Divinity, Dr. William Stuart Nelson, and his relationship with Mohandas K. Gandhi. Nelson studied India for two decades and marched with Gandhi in support of communal harmony and religious unity in British ruled Bengal. He studied nonviolent philosophy and methods in order to assert his solidarity with Indian people and develop a morally just way of fighting segregation in the United States. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was mentored by Nelson, traveled to India also in 1959. In his Lincoln University Commencement Address of 1961, he affirmed this important connection between the Indian Independence Movement and the Civil Rights movement in America.

This event will be held on Thursday, October 24, 2019 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Mary Dod Brown Memorial Chapel. This event is free and open to the public.