Making a Refuge of Resistance: A History of the U.S. Sanctuary Movement, with Lloyd Barba

Thursday, May 8, 5:00 P.m.

Wallis Annenberg Conference Room

Presented by the Walter H. Capps Center

Lloyd Barba, Assistant Professor of Religion and Core Faculty in Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College, will discuss questions such as how houses of worship in the 1980s protected migrants from immigration enforcement authorities and what historical factors made such spaces sacred.