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Other Voices: Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary

Date:
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
Time:
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Event Type:
Panel Discussion
Organizer/Author:
ppjc
Location Details:
Community Media Center
900 San Antonio Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303

June 1964. Over 1,000 volunteers head to Mississippi to register black voters. By August, 4 people were dead, 80 beaten, 1,000 arrested, 67 churches, homes and businesses burned or bombed. This is the story of that summer…

Special Guests:

CLAYBORNE CARSON
Director, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University
Professor of American History

DOUG McADAM
Author, Freedom Summer (Oxford Univ. Press)
Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Added to the calendar on Fri, Jul 11, 2014 4:29PM
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