The final speaker in the lecture series — Slavery to Freedom: An American Odyssey — comes to campus Thursday.

Taylor Branch is an author and chronicler who recently finished a three-volume narrative history, "America in the King Years."

The narrative discusses the fight for civil rights in the United States during 1954-68. The first volume, won a Pulitzer Prize.

The lecture begins at 5 p.m. in the Big Ten A room at Kellogg Center. The series is sponsored by MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine.