Scholar, long-time civil rights activist and former SNCC and CORE member Dr. James P. Garrett will be one of four guest speakers at this Saturday's (February 15) 45th annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series. The popular Black History Month event will take place from 9:30am-3:30pm at the Paul Robeson Campus Center at Rutgers-Newark. The event is presented by the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience.
(Top to bottom): 1. Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries - Freedom Now Project; 2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. “Portrait of Paul Robeson” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1925 - 1970; 3. John Lewis at the Cairo IL demonstration, from SNCC poster, “Come let us build a new world together” – Danny Lyon (1962) from Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. 4. Lorie Shaull via Flickr
On this episode of The Art of the Story, Dr. Garrett talks about his early days being involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
You can SEE the entire interview with Dr. James P. Garrett here.
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You can SEE the entire interview with MTW organizers and the Institute's Dr. Lacey Hunter and Dr. Jack Tchen here.
