Join the Cambridge Union for this screening of the historic James Baldwin FR Buckley Junior debate. This debate, on the motion “This House Believes the American Dream has been achieved at the expense of the negro” packed our chamber to the rafters, and the footage is striking.
Prior to this event there will be a panel discussion of the event, with the President from the time, Peter Fullerton and David Heycock, a student who spoke at the event, alongside Nick Buccola who has written a book about the great debate.
Do join the Union for this exciting and historical event in the Chamber.
THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO ALL
About the Author
Nicholas Buccola is the author of The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass and the editor of The Essential Douglass and Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, and many other publications. He is the Elizabeth and Morris Glicksman Chair in Political Science at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, and lives in Portland.