Join us for the

 
             

 

Annual Clarence Darrow
Commemorative Ceremony

Tuesday, March 13, 2012
10:00 a.m.
Press release

Wreath-tossing ceremony at the

Clarence Darrow Bridge in Jackson Park
(behind the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry).
Take the first Lake Shore Drive cut-off south of 57th Street ["Science Road"]
and follow the left fork of that road to the bridge south of the Museum.
  

Symposium follows at 10:45 a.m.
in
 The NEW Columbian Room located in the 
Museum of Science and Industry

 

Absolving Anarchy: John P. Altgeld and 

the Pardon that Shook Gilded Age America

 Heath W. Carter

Heath W. Carter is a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. history at the University of Notre Dame specializing in the social history of modern industrial society. He has published articles on race, religion, and labor in academic and popular journals.  He is writing a book entitled Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago, which tells the story of how wage-earning believers innovated a fierce critique of both the captains of industry and the churches that underwrote their rule. He is a Graduate Scholar-in-Residence at the Newberry Library. In the summer of 2012, he will assume a new post as the assistant professor of Modern United States History at Valparaiso University

 

For further information, call Tracy Baim 773-387-2394.
For Clarence Darrow Commemorative Committee information, see <www.darrowbridge.org> . 
 

 

You might enjoy a Darrow presentation created for a
"Law and Society"class by University of West Florida students
Anna Lewis, Michelle Gothard, and Eric Demara (PowerPoint) (PDF).

Links to previous Darrow Commemorative Ceremony web pages:
(2001)  (2002)  (2003)  (2004)  (2005)  (2006)   (2007)   (2008)   (2009)   (2011)

  
  
Darrow on the web

  
More to come!

    

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