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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Monday, March 17, 2008

'AINA HAINA
'Remembering 1965' to be discussed at library

Advertiser Staff

Dr. Noel Kent of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's Ethnic Studies Department will present "Remembering 1965: A Watershed Year for America" tomorrow at the 'Aina Haina Public Library.

Kent will speak from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. about the most significant events of that year, including the civil rights movement reaching an apex, President Lyndon B. Johnson embarking on a war and the flowering of the baby boomer generation. He is the author of "Hawai'i: Islands Under the Influence," published in 1993, and "America in 1900," published in 2000.

The talk is free and open to the public and is supported by a grant from the Hawai'i Council for the Humanities. For more information, call 732-5402.