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DESCRIPTION:Mon, October 25, 2021 @ 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PDT\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peace-justice-conversations-the-american-history-of-voter-suppression-ag-tickets-178246158057\n\nVoter 
 suppression has a long history in the United States, beginning with 
 Reconstruction \nand dominating Southern politics during the first half of 
 the twentieth century. \n\nThe "Freedom Summer" of 1964 in Mississippi was 
 a key confrontation with the tactics and system of voter suppression. Jim 
 Kates was privileged to be part of that confrontation. \n\nWhat did Freedom 
 Summer accomplish, what did it fail to accomplish, and what can we learn 
 from it as the repressive policies of the nineteenth century are being 
 revived nationwide in the twenty-first?\n\nLearn more about Freedom Summer 
 here: 
 https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/freedom-summer\n\n\nSPEAKER: 
 James Kates\n\nJames Kates born in 1945, in White Plains, New York, 
 volunteered for the Mississippi Summer Project after his freshman year at 
 Wesleyan University, and spent that summer helping to implement a special 
 court order encouraging voter registration in Panola County. \n\nIn the 
 fall of 1964, he organized a Friends of SNCC/COFO in Paris, France, to 
 support the work of the American civil-rights movement. He returned to 
 Mississippi in 1965, working in Natchez, and later became a public school 
 teacher, a nonviolence trainer for interpersonal and political movements, a 
 poet and a literary translator. \n\nSince 1997, he has co-directed the 
 non-profit literary publishing house Zephyr Press, publishers of Letters 
 from Mississippi: Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers & Poetry of the 1964 
 Freedom Summer. A contributor to the anthologies What Does It Mean to Be 
 White in America? and Black Lives Have Always Mattered, he is also a member 
 of the Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement.\n\n\nThere is no 
 charge to attend, but your contributions in any amount are greatly 
 appreciated: https://nhpeaceaction.org/donate\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/10/16/18845722.php
SUMMARY:Freedom Summer: Confronting U.S. History of Voter Suppression w/ Activist, Jim Kates
LOCATION:Online event (FREE)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/10/16/18845722.php
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