Award-winning author Attica Locke is the keynote speaker for "Revolution on Cullen. The Personal Challenges of Integrating UH in the 1960s."

Locke will discuss her novel Black Water Rising, which reflects on the tensions of student life at UH in the 1960s and will read from her newly released novel, The Cutting Season.

Former NBA player, coach and commentator Don Chaney and Gene Locke, an activist, attorney and recent mayoral candidate, will discuss their experiences as part of the first cohorts of African-American students at UH. Alison Leland, interim director of community affairs at UH, will moderate the panel.

This public symposium will explore the integration of the UH campus and civil rights activism in Houston through the eyes of two students who were at the forefront of the change and through the eyes of a novelist looking back at this time of rapid social and political change in Houston and the wider society.

RSVP by Sept. 26 to 713-743-8962 or rslusby@uh.edu.