by lindaoppenheim | Oct 9, 2018 | Events
The life of influential journalist Bill Minor, who covered the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi for seven decades, is the subject of this documentary, which will be shown on Thursday, October 11, 7—8:30 pm at the Princeton Public Library. Minor was the New Orleans...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 7, 2018 | Events
Four-day pilgrimage to key Civil Rights Movement sites in Mississippi. Trip will include, among other stops, the site where three Civil Rights workers disappeared, Medgar Evers home, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, the Mississippi Delta where Fannie Lou Hamer...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 7, 2018 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation
“[I]t took 52 years for historical markers to be erected at locations related to the teenager’s death, which galvanized the civil rights movement after the acquittal. And now, at the spot marking where Till’s body was pulled from the river, it took just 35 days...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 7, 2018 | Events
On Wednesday there will be two events right across the street from each other, in which NIOT board members are participating or that NIOT is co-sponsoring: 1. 5:30 pm, Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon St. Joint Effort Safe Streets Reception and Panel...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 26, 2018 | Events, Stand Against Racism, Video
On Wednesday, August 8, Not in Our Town Princeton is co-sponsoring with the Princeton YWCA its final Stand Against Racism Summer Series event, a screening of “Standing on my Sister’s Shoulders” in partnership with the Princeton Public Library....
