the Informer

[caption id="attachment_385985" align="alignright" width="450" caption="Courtesy of UNotes"][/caption] Students in Professor Warren Goldstein’s first-year seminar got a special experience while being filmed for C-SPAN 3. “Beyond the Dreamer: The Life and Work of Martin Luther King Jr.” is being aired Saturday, Dec. 3 at 8 p.m. and midnight and Sunday, Dec. 4 at 1 p.m. through CSPAN’s Lectures in History series, part of its American History TV programming. The film crew consisting of four men was on campus Nov. 15 to film the class in the new KF seminar room in Mortensen Library. C-SPAN visits different college classrooms as part of their lecture series so that audience members will be able to experience a genuine day in a class from beginning to end without interruption. Goldstein has been interested in the history of the civil rights movement for a long time. Chair of the History Department, Goldstein recently began a research project on King’s Letter from Birmingham City Jail and the Birmingham desegregation campaign in the spring of 1963. The class that was filmed contains 13 freshmen students and a senior preceptor. It is a very interactive class and featured a lengthy discussion on the context surrounding King’s protest efforts in Ala. and the overall status of the movement in 1963. The filmed class also included an analysis of the civil rights leader’s famous letter and a series of photographs from protests, comparing images from 1963 to 2010. “The students were just terrific and did a wonderful job of handling the pressures involved in being filmed,” said Goldstein, ”They had really prepared, and so we had a very lively dialogue.”