Members of the community are invited to attend the annual Donald L. Hollowell Lecture this week. The UGA is hosting Dr. Robert Franklin is this year’s guest speaker. The Emory professor and ordained minister, who knew the late civil rights attorney personally, will speak on “The Vocation of Moral Leadership”.
“I define moral leaders as women and men who live and lead with integrity, with courage and with imagination as they serve the common at the same good,” Franklin said. “And at the same time, they invite others to join them.”
The lecture is named in honor Donald L. Hollowell, of the civil rights attorney who won the landmark case that desegregated UGA. Dr. Llewellyn Cornelius is Donald L. Hollowell Distinguished Professor for Civil Rights and Social Justice Studies at UGA.
“Part of a social democracy means that all of us as citizens, participation requires us to actively engage, as well as to hold others accountable for wherever they’re providing the services that we need,” Cornelius said.
Designed to bring speakers to speak on issues of social justice and human rights, past, present future, local regional, national.
“I want them to have hope,” Cornelius said. “What I don’t want is the one and done. They come to the speaking event, they feel good, they pat themselves on their back and the next morning they wash it down their tubes.”
The lecture will include a short discussion, Q&A session and book signing following the event. It’s Thursday, March 21 from 3 to 4 pm at the Georgia Center.