Junius Williams to Speak at Scotch Plains Public Library

The public is invited to Scotch Plains Public Library on Wednesday, September 14 at 6:30 pm, to meet New Jersey author and civil rights activist Junius Williams, Esq. Mr. Williams will speak about the experiences he details in his 2014 book, Unfinished Agenda, Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power. Following the lecture, Unfinished Agenda will be available for purchase and signing by the author.

Junius Williams will take his listeners from his childhood in the segregated South of the 1950’s, through his participation in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, to his achievements as a black lawyer, community activist and mayoral candidate in Newark in the 1970s and 1980s.

A nationally recognized attorney, musician, and educator, Mr. Williams currently serves as Director of the Abbott Leadership Institute at Rutgers University Newark. His life in the Civil Rights Movement has been chronicled in the Civil Rights History Project, a collaborative initiative of the Library of Congress and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution.

He has spoken at the Smithsonian Institute, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton, NJ, and colleges throughout the country. He was listed as one of the “100 Most Influential Blacks in America,” by Ebony magazine.

The event is co-sponsored by Social Justice Matters, Inc. and the Scotch Plains Public Library. All library programs are free and open to the public. Registration is recommended for this program. To register, sign up at http://www.scotlib.org, or call (908) 322-5007, x204.