RETRACING the STRUGGLE: The Legacy of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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This post came to me through a fellow Harvard staffer – David Dance. He works at
Phillips Brooks House
which has a lot of fond memories for me. It is Harvard’s institutional
outreach to the rest of the world. It even has its own entrance to the
Yard which is now chained shut for security reasons most of the time.
David picketed outside during the Mass Hall sit-in in ’72. He was a community activist in Dorchester. Harvard needs him.
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March with Congressman John Lewis
Place: First Chursh in Roxbury, 10 Putnam St., Boston
Time: Sunday, October 30, 2005 Rain or shine. Program: 1:00
p.m. March: 2:00 p.m.
Forty years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led marchers on an
historic march from Selma to Montgomery, show your commitment to the
fight for civil rights and the importance of political engagement by
walking with us from Roxbury to the Boston Common.
Congressman John Lewis of Georgia will lead a commemorative march along
a route similar to that of a march led by Dr. King in 1965 to protest
the segregation of Boston’s public schools. Read about Congressman
Lewis and his role as one of the “Big Six” leaders of the Civil Rights
Movement at www.house.gov/johnlewis/bio.html
More information at: www.mfh.org/retracingthestruggle
[I was too fast and loose with these links. 🙁 Fixed now.]
