30th Anniversary of November 3, 1979

This is a small fee of $10 for lunch on Thursday & Friday. On Saturday, lunch will be offered at Bennett College's Cafeteria.

This is a small fee of $10 for lunch on Thursday & Friday. On Saturday, lunch will be offered at Bennett College's Cafeteria.

Healing, Stories, and Film

The event will take place at New Light Baptist Church. Keynote Speaker for this Session: Baldemar Velasquez was born into a migrant farm worker family and began agricultural work when he was six years old. He attended what is now the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, Texas from 1965-66, Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio 1966-67, and from 1967-69 attended Bluffton College, where he graduated with a BA in Sociology. In 1979, FLOC launched a nationwide boycott of Campbell's tomato harvesting operations to pressure the company into labor negotiations. In 1983, Velázquez led 600-mile march of 100 farm workers from FLOC headquarters in Toledo, Ohio to Campbell's headquarters in Camden, New Jersey. The march garnered extensive national media coverage for Velázquez and FLOC.

This event will take place on the campus of Bennett College. Keynote Speaker for this event: Ambassador James A. Joseph Ambassador James A. Joseph is Professor of the Practice of Public Policy Studies and Executive Director of the United States – Southern Africa Center for Leadership and Public Values at Duke University. Nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the United States Senate in December 1995, he was the first and only American Ambassador to present his credentials to President Nelson Mandela.