'SAY IT LOUD' . . . Rutgers invites protestors from the 1960s to mark 40-year anniversary of Newark riots, social changes at university
WHO: Activists who were engaged in public protests and political movements of the 1960s and experts on the black civil rights movement, including former members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. SNCC was instrumental in galvanizing the young adult presence during the civil rights movement and the driving force behind many milestone protests and the black power movement.
Panelists include:
Courtland Cox, a former SNCC member and champion for economic development and equality for minority business. Cox has served as the director of the U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency.
Zenzele Isoke, doctoral student women and gender studies at Rutgers and organizer of the 2004 Hip-Hop Convention
Judy Richardson, a former SNCC member and a producer for Eyes on the Prize, a highly regarded documentary that chronicles the civil rights and black power movements with original video footage
WHAT: A civil rights symposium, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times/ The Black Freedom Movement, 1960s to the Present hosted by the Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes. The event is free and open to the public.
WHEN: Wednesday, March 7, at 6 p.m.
WHERE: Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center, 100 George St., New Brunswick
BACKGROUND: The symposium is also a supplement to the newly established course on the civil rights movement, Extraordinary People, Extra Courage. The English class will examine memoirs, biographies, novels, poetry and oral history from World War II to the early 1970s. The event is sponsored by the Committee to Advance our Common Purposes.
Contact: Nicole Pride
732-932-7084, Ext. 610