02/12/2002

'60s PROTEST MOVEMENT LEADER TO SPEAK AT JMU FEB. 13


HARRISONBURG — Bobby Seale, chairman and co-founder of the Black Panther Party, will speak at James Madison University Wednesday, Feb. 13, as a guest of the campus Black Student Alliance.

"An Evening with Bobby Seale" begins at 7 p.m. in Room 1301, Health and Human Services Building. Admission is free and open to the public.

The Black Student Alliance, a support group for minority students, sponsors educational, career and social activities and performs community-service projects.

Members of the news media may arrange brief interviews with Seale after the Q&A by calling Amanda Claytor, corresponding secretary of the Black Student Alliance, who is arranging Seale’s campus visit. Her telephone number is (540) 612-7745.