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| September 18, 2014 |
Time:
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: RBD Library ground floor auditorium
Please join us for the Fall 2014 Africana Studies Affiliate Lecture Series
co-sponsored with the RBD Library and Archives “‘Ghosts of Mississippi’: Freedom Summer, 1964, a Fifty Year Retrospective”
Thursday, September 18
3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
RBD Library Ground floor auditorium
Reception to follow
Popular historical and media treatments of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project have emphasized the murders of three civil rights activists and a grassroots challenge of the state’s all-white delegation at the Democratic National
Convention, but Freedom Summer activities extended far beyond voter registration and formal political activity to include education, the arts, healthcare, and other forms of community organizing.
Dr. David Carter
is an associate professor
in the Department of History in the College
of Liberal Arts who for the last 14 years at Auburn University has taught and written about the history of the civil rights movement, the history of the American South since the Civil War,
and U.S. history since 1945.
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