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First Amendment
"Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom
of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably
to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of
grievances."
- The U.S. Constitution
FACTS
ABOUT THE FIRST AMENDMENT CENTER
• Location: 236 Grehan Journalism
Building, Lexington, KY.
• Director: J. Michael Farrell
• Resources: An extensive collection of
print and audiovisual materials are housed in the Center.
• Activities: The Annual Scripps Howard
Foundation First Amendment Celebration at the University of
Kentucky; public policy forums on undecided voters in the presidential
election campaign, on media bias and on civic literacy; two
high school journalism workshops; and sponsorship, with the
Kentucky Secretary of State, of a high school essay contest.
See the About section for more details.
• Relationships: The Scripps Howard Foundation;
The Kettering Foundation, including its Katherine Fanning Fellowship;
the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame; the Scripps Howard Center
for Civic Engagement at Northern Kentucky University; Ashland
Oil; the Gannett Foundation; the Kentucky Press Association;
the University of Kentucky Discovery Seminar Program; the Kentucky
Secretary of State's Office, the Carnegie Center for Literacy
and Learning, Ball State University, Democratic and Republican
student organizations, UK's Career Center and Experiential Education,
the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues; and
the International Advanced Team StoryTelling Workshop for broadcast
journalists.
FIRST AMENDMENT CENTER SIMPLIFIED TIMELINE
• 1987 Established with
a grant from the Kentucky First Amendment Congress and the Kentucky
Post.
• 1989 Dedicated by CBS newsman Charles
Kuralt and then Kentucky Post editor Judy Clabes.
• 1994 Buck Ryan becomes Director of the
First Amendment Center.
• 2005 Roy Moore becomes Executive Director
of the First Amendment Center.
• 2006 Mike Farrell becomes Director of
the First Amendment Center; center renamed the Scripps Howard
First Amendment Center and Farrell named a Scripps Howard Fellow.
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