Flyer for the inauguration of The Robert Talbot Civil Rights Speaker Series featuring  Fighting Times  coauthors Amy Banks and Isaac Knapper

Greater Bangor Area Branch NAACP

University of Maine Alumni Association

English

University of Maine

The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Special Collections 9-2021 The Robert Talbot Civil Rights Speaker Series Flyer_2021 University of Maine Alumni Association Greater Bangor Area Branch NAACP Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/social_justice  Part of the Higher Education Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, Social Justice Commons, and the United States History Commons This Flyer is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact um.library.technical.services@maine.edu. About Fighting Time, by co-authors Amy Banks and Isaac Knapper In 1979, 16-year-old Isaac Knapper was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder in New Orleans of UMaine History Professor Ronald Banks. However, Knapper was freed 13 years later after it was revealed that prosecutors had suppressed evidence that cleared Knapper of the crime. Professor Banks’ daughter, Amy Banks, was also 16 years old at the time of her father’s murder. Twenty-six years later, she and Knapper met and began working together to process the horrific circumstances of the murder and judicial failures. Now close friends and advocates for racial justice and reform, the two have collaborated on Fighting Time. As reviewer Jennifer Thompson wrote, “Fighting Time is not just a book about the injustice of a wrongful conviction, but a love story of the capacity of human beings to find power in the pain and healing in the harm.” Fighting Time will be published on November 5th. Advance copies of the book will be available for sale at Banks and Knapper’s October 21st presentation and at The Briar Patch bookstore in Bangor.Co-hosted byThe UMaine Alumni Associationand the Greater Bangor Area Branch NAACPPlease join us in Orono for the inauguration of The Robert Talbot Civil Rights Speaker SeriesThursday, October 21, 2021Wells Conference Center, University of Maine4:30 p.m. – reception  |  5:30 p.m. – programFEATURINGFighting Time co-authorsAmy Banks and Isaac KnapperRegister at our.umaine.edu/talbot or call 207.581.1146. Admission is free. This event is supported by a generous grant from Bangor Savings Bank.

The Robert Talbot Civil Rights Speaker Series Flyer_2021

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The Robert Talbot Civil Rights Speaker Series Flyer_2021

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