{"id":10209,"date":"2015-02-25T08:14:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T14:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=10209"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:36:43","slug":"mundelein-college-remembers-selma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2015\/02\/25\/mundelein-college-remembers-selma\/","title":{"rendered":"Mundelein College Remembers Selma"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10210\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/files\/2015\/02\/Mundelein-students-Selma.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2015\/02\/Mundelein-students-Selma-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Mundelein College Students on Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, March, 1965.\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2015\/02\/Mundelein-students-Selma-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2015\/02\/Mundelein-students-Selma-1024x697.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mundelein College Students on Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, March, 1965.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"center\">Commemorating Civil Rights and the Events of Selma<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Thursday, March 12 \u2022 4-5:30 PM<br \/>\nPiper Hall<br \/>\nLakeshore Campus<br \/>\nLoyola University Chicago<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>*Reception following program<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This program explores the sources of Mundelein College\u2019s commitment to civil rights in the early 1960\u2019s with special attention to the college\u2019s decision to send a delegation of faculty and students to participate in the final leg of the Freedom March.<\/p>\n<p>Panelists:<br \/>\nSpeakers include <strong>Nancy Freeman<\/strong>, Director, Women and Leadership Archives; <strong>Dr. Prudence Moylan <\/strong>and <strong>Dr. Ann Harrington, BVM<\/strong>, Loyola History Professors Emeritae and former Mundelein College Professors; <strong>Judy Fitzgerald<\/strong>, alumna of Mundelein College; and <strong>John Fitzgerald<\/strong>, alumnus of Loyola University Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Mundelein College began in 1930, founded and operated by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVMs), provided education to women until 1991, when it affiliated with Loyola University Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the <a>Gannon Center for Women and Leadership<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/luc.edu\/wla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women and Leadership Archives<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/streetwise.org\/2015\/01\/recalling-the-march-from-selma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Recalling the March from Selma,&#8221; <em>Streetwise<\/em>, January 26, 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commemorating Civil Rights and the Events of Selma<br \/>\nThursday, March 12 \u2022 4-5:30 PM<br \/>\nPiper Hall<br \/>\nLakeshore Campus<br \/>\nLoyola University Chicago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10209"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17726,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209\/revisions\/17726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}