Sept. 22, 1999


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SunTrust Chair Lecture, Sept. 27:
"Conservative Intellectuals Confronting the Civil Rights Revolution, 1945-75"

On Monday, September 27, UTC's SunTrust Chair of Excellence presents "The
Struggle Against Equality:  Conservative Intellectuals Confronting the
Civil Rights Revolution, 1945-1975," a lecture by author and scholar
Richard King.
        The lecture will be held in the Honors Reading Room in Guerry Hall,
from 3-5 p.m. and is free of charge.
        King, is a 1959 graduate of Chattanooga High School,is currently
the director of American Studies at the University of Nottingham in
England. A prominent and accomplished scholar of Southern history, King is
the author of The Party of Eros;  A Southern Renaissance; Civil Rights and
the Idea of Freedom; and Dixie Debates.
         "Richard is a born-and-bred Tennessean, and although he has spent
much of his life abroad, he has never stopped pondering the mixed legacy of
the Southern past," says Bill McClay, who holds the SunTrust Chair of
Excellence at UTC.
        " For him, this has meant not only recognizing the winners of
history, but also acknowledging the losers -- not only celebrating the
heroism of the Civil Rights movement, as he has done in his previous work,
but also trying to understand the thinking of the movement's opponents.
Such scrupulous fair-mindedness imparts to his ultimate judgments a deep
and gently humane authority, unusual among American scholars."
        For information call 755-5202.