RALEIGH, N.C. – Campbell Law Associate Professor Amos Jones will serve as the guest lecturer at Campbellsville University in Campbellsville, Ky., on Tuesday, March 1, as part of that university’s Baptist Heritage Lecture Series. Jones has titled his presentation “Free People in a Free State: Civil Rights Churches of Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky, 1790 to 1968.”
“Fifty years after passing of Kentucky’s Civil Rights Act of 1966, it is a fine time to get into this topic,” said Jones, a native of Lexington. “At a time when the ‘progressive Christian’ label is being re-appropriated for questionable ends, we ought to look to the most authoritative origins of modern Baptist social consciousness — a sampling of noteworthy black congregations in places like Kentucky.”
Campbell University President Dr. J. Bradley Creed previously served as a guest lecturer during Campbellsville’s Baptist Heritage Series in March 2012.
An ordained deacon, Jones graduated with honors in political science from Emory University, where he was a Harry S. Truman Scholar and a National Merit Scholar, earned his Master of Science from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he served as an executive editor of both the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal and the Harvard Human Rights Journal and was President of Direct Action. While at Harvard, he was awarded a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship, on which he spent his first year out of law school as a visiting scholar in the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at Australia’s University of Melbourne.
Campbellsville University is a widely acclaimed Kentucky-based Christian university with more than 3,500 students offering over 80 programs of study including 24 master’s degrees, seven postgraduate areas and eight pre-professional programs.
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