by lindaoppenheim | Nov 13, 2014 | Events, The New Jim Crow
Just posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom: James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, who were killed as they participated in the 1964 Freedom Summer drive to register black voters in Mississippi. “Their deaths shocked the nation and...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 11, 2014 | Events, News
Bob Moses was one of the most influential black leaders of the civil rights movement. He speaks on Sunday, November 16, at 2 p.m. at the John Witherspoon School about his role in the 1965 campaign to register African-Americans in Mississippi to vote. A reception...
