Hello - I'd like to get to this presentation - need a ride from Montpelier

From Freedom Summer to Ferguson: 50 Years of Struggle
@ The Plainfield Opera House
Monday Jan. 12th
6-9 pm
FREE

With a growing national consciousness of the prevalence of police killings of Black people across the United States, the issue of racial oppression and more specifically anti-Black racism has been thrust to the forefront of American popular consciousness. It is telling, that the youth-led, community-based organizing in Ferguson happened 50 years after the Freedom Summer movement descended on Mississippi to fight black disenfranchisement by building black political power.

Critical lessons were drawn from the Freedom Summer experience, and this Monday we will have an opportunity to hear from Vermonters who were part of Freedom Summer: Penny Patch, Gail Falk, & Tamar Cole and moderators: Paul Marcus and Sha'an Mouliert: and see an abbreviated version (50 min) of the PBS American Experience documentary, Freedom Summer.

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