by lindaoppenheim | Apr 5, 2018 | Events, Uncategorized
On Sunday, April 8 at 4:00 pm in the Pace Center for Civic Engagement, Princeton University, 101 McCormick, Dr. Robert Moses will discuss the evolution of racial justice organizing in the US in conversation with Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, assistant professor in the...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 31, 2014 | Article, Continuing Conversations
Some of the 2014 activities of Not In Our Town earned mentioned in the December 31, 2014 issue of the Town Topics. Freedom Summer 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer and many in Princeton recalled their participation in the 1964 campaign to register...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 16, 2014 | Letter to the Editor
U.S.1: To the Editor Freedom Summer: 50 Years Later This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer Project, the nonviolent effort by civil rights activists to integrate Mississippi’s segregated political system. Princeton was fortunate to have Robert...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 21, 2014 | Article
Thanks to Linda Arntzenius, freelance reporter, for her Town Topics coverage of Freedom Summer programs. So far: ** Her excellent account of the talk by Bob Moses on Sunday, November 16. ** A profile of Princeton activist Mary Stevens, who participated in Freedom...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 16, 2014 | Events, News, Opinion
At the launch of the Freedom Summer exhibit, with nearly 150 people assembled at the John Witherspoon School, civil rights pioneer Bob Moses talked about the history of the U.S. Constitution with the teens and tweens. As he did so, he challenged the adults as...
