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 21, 2014 | Events
Nearly 70 people came to hear NIOT’s excellent panel at Princeton Public Library on Thursday, with Ted Fetter (center of group photo) moderating four panelists (in order of photos: Joseph Moore, Michael Lipsky, Shirley Satterfield, and Benjamin Colbert) and two...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 20, 2014 | Events
The Princeton Public Library ( 65 Witherspoon St. Princeton, NJ ) will present a panel of Princeton residents and others from the local area who participated in Freedom Summer and Civil Rights events in 1964 share their memories. The panel will be moderated by Ted...
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...
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...
