Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Taylor Branch will present "Civil Rights Then and Now: Reflections on the King Years" in the Kiehle Auditorium at the University of Minnesota-Crookston Jan. 20 at 7 p.m.
The event is free and all are welcome.
Branch also will speak Jan. 21 at 10 a.m. at the Lake Agassiz Regional Library in Crookston as part of his visit.
Taylor Branch is an American author and public speaker best known for his narrative history of the civil rights era, "America in the King Years." The trilogy's first book won the Pulitzer Prize and numerous other awards in 1989.
