Two young historians engaged in cutting-edge research will present their findings at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 3, at the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 2215 Millstream Road, Lancaster. The Young Historians Spotlight presentations will cover Quaker prison work in Northern Ireland and Mennonites in the United States reckoning with the Civil Rights movement.
Ashley King will present "Peace and Prisons: Quaker Efforts in Addressing Penal Affairs in Northern Ireland 1971-1989." She will examine the activities of Quaker organizations in Northern Ireland in their efforts to address issues of penal affairs during the Northern Irish Troubles (1971-1989).
Alex Loganbill will present "A New Responsibility: The Awakening of the Mennonite Social Conscience During the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1965." In 1950, Mennonites gathered at a historic conference in Winona Lake, Ind., to attempt to square contemporary Christian social ethics with their own two-kingdom theology in a post-war America. These commitments were promptly tested when the Civil Rights Movement thrust racial injustice to the forefront of the American consciousness.
The event is free and open to the public. The Young Historian Spotlight is a collaboration of Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Mennonite Church USA Archives, the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College, and the Sider Institute for Anabaptist, Pietist, and Wesleyan Studies at Messiah College. For more details, readers may visit http://www.lmhs.org.
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