August 20th Lunch & Learn
Join Janis Schachter, a former journalist and social studies teacher as she explores the ideals of freedom our nation was founded on and how they have changed over time. With “Four score and seven years ago,” Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address directed our attention to 1776 and the aspirational words of the Declaration of Independence. He then declared a “new birth of freedom,” calling on Americans to recommit themselves to those words — a commitment Martin Luther King would refer to in his “I Have a Dream” speech 100 years later. What meaning did – and does – Lincoln’s call for a “new birth of freedom” have for Americans?
