Professor Michael Flamm will present “Death of a Dream: Tragedies of 1968 in History and Memory” at 7 p.m. on April 4 at Bexley Public Library, 2411 E. Main St., Bexley, Ohio 43209.
On the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, Flamm will explore how that terrible event, the urban uprisings that followed and the subsequent murder of Senator Robert Kennedy shaped and shadowed American politics and society in 1968 – and continue to do so today, 50 years later.
Flamm is a scholar of modern American political history who joined the OWU faculty in 1998. He is the author or co-author of numerous articles and five books, including “In the Heat of the Summer: The New York Riots of 1964 and the War On Crime.”
Source: Office of University Communications.