Julian Bond, Chairman of the NAACP, was the keynote speaker
at the 2001 Series.
Robert C. Maynard, Syndicated Columnist, Editor,The Tribune, Oakland, CA
History of the MLK Series at Vanderbilt University:
List of Series Keynote Speakers since 1985
1985: Honorable Andrew Young (Mayor of Atlanta)
1986: Joseph E. Lowery (President of SCLC)
1987: Senator Julian Bond
1988: Attallah Shabazz (Malcolm X's daughter), Yolanda King (King's eldest daughter), Honorable Henry Cisneros (Mayor of San Antonio, TX), Robert Maynard
1989: William Gray III (US Representative)
1990: Honorable Richard Arrington (Mayor of Birmingham,
AL)
1991: Panel on Race, Politics, and Law.
1992: Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole (President of Spelman College)
1993: Marian Wright Edelman
1994: Dr. Cornel West (Author of Race Matters)
1995: David Halberstam (former reporter for The Tennessean during the 1960's sit-ins)
1996: Dr. Henry Foster, Jr. (AHC Scholar in Residence at AAHC)
1997: Rev. Joseph W. Walker, III (Pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church)
1998: Rev. James L. Bevel (Co-founder of the Nashville Student Movement in the '60's)
1999: Morris Dees (Attorney and Founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center)
2000: Kathleen Neal Cleaver (Former Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party, Former Professor of Law at Emory University, and currently a Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.)
2001: Julian Bond, President of the NAACP
2002: Music, Memory & the Movement: The Sounds of Liberation. Fisk Jubilee Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock.
2003: David Satcher and Cornel West.
2004: Juan Williams, Journalist, Bestselling Author & Senior Correspondent for National Public Radio's Morning Edition
2007: The Fisk Jubilee Singers and Bishop Joseph W. Walker III
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