DATE: 8/27/04
CONTACT: Donna Arterburn, (864) 656-0605
WRITER: Susan Bedingfield, (864) 656-3876

Noble to speak on civil rights experience at Clemson’s STI

CLEMSON – Phil Noble, author of “Beyond the Burning Bus: The Civil Rights Revolution in a Southern Town,” will speak at the Strom Thurmond Institute at Clemson University Sept. 13 at 7:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public.

Noble will discuss his experiences as a young Presbyterian minister in Anniston, Ala. during the civil rights movement. Noble brings an insider’s perspective to the 1961 firebombing of a Freedom Riders bus by the Klu Klux Klan as well as black and white leaders working together toward peaceful desegregation.

A book signing, hosted by the Clemson University Bookstore, will follow the program.

The program is part of the Clemson University Presidential Colloquium.

Sponsors are The Jim Self Center on the Future at the Strom Thurmond Institute, the Robert J. Rutland Center for Ethics, The One World Project, and Campus Ministry.

For more information contact Donna Arterburn at (864) 656-0605 or visit the Strom Thurmond Institute’s web page at http://www.strom.clemson.edu/events/calhoun/.

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