Of Songs, Peace, and Struggle Series, Freedom's Fight Continues: Mississippi Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow?
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Maltsby, Portia
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection / Series 1: Program Files
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content: 1999 January 16
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content: Box 25, Folder 14
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: In commemoration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Program in African American Culture presented Freedom's Fight Continues: Mississippi Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow on Saturday, January 16, 1999, in the Carmichael Auditorium, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. The program included a roundtable discussion, a freedom song workshop led by Hollis Watkins and Unita Blackwell, and an exhibition tour of objects related to social change in America. 

Participants:

The Honorable Unita Blackwell, former field organizer with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and an organizer for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Dr. Leslie Burl McLemore, founding president of the Rust College chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Hollis Watkins, the fist Mississippi student to become involved in the 1961 Mississippi Voting Rights Project of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Charlie Cobb, moderator, former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary, Mississippi


Program number AC408.107.