The Garden Theatre notes that major cities get it first, but that it will come here “by the end of the month.” What a great resource!
Michael Schwerner, James Cheney, and Andrew Goodman, young men murdered in 1964 during Freedom Summer, have just received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
A wonderful exhibit on Freedom Summer opens at the John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton on Sunday, November 16, at 2 p.m. with a talk by civil rights activist Bob Moses.
Try to come and bring your teenage- children. To appreciate the rights we enjoy, we need to remember how they were earned.
Bayard Rustin: The proof that one truly believes is in action.
Civil Rights historians know that John F. Kennedy was a latecomer to celebrating the March on Washington, and that Lyndon Johnson was the one who accomplished significant civil rights goals. They also know that Bayard Rustin was the unsung hero of the civil rights movement. Finally, now that he is going to receive a posthumous Medal of Freedom, Rustin is getting at least part of his due.
Princeton’s Ann Yasuhara tells how, on several posts at Not in Our Town Princeton.
Moral Mondays on Friday: Reverend William Barber, a civil rights leader and president of the North Carolina NAACP, will speak on Moral Mondays, a grassroots movement against conservative politics, at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, in McCosh Hall, Room 50.
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