SPT 583/483 SU S1 2023 - JESUITS AND CIVIL RIGHTS.01

June 5-8 5:30-8:00 PM Spring Hill College or Online Ryan Noble, M.F.A.

Although Jesuit priests throughout the country were involved in diverse Civil Rights activities and actions throughout the United States and, in particular, the South, this course will focus more intensely on the various Jesuit leaders at Spring Hill College who forged a path toward racial integration. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. paid tribute to this act in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail in 1963, pointing out that no other institution in the South had yet followed the lead of “the Jesuits” at Spring Hill College. It will also cover the nine black individuals who were admitted to the college in 1955, their stories as we know them and what became of their lives after leaving SHC.