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Voices of Freedom Summer
February 16, 2019 @ 6:00 pm
February 16th, 6pm
Director: Francis Kuhn
Assistant Director: by Mitchel Sommers
at UNCG’s Greensboro Project Space
219 W. Lewis St.
Greensboro, NC 27406
http://www.greensboroprojectspace.com/projects/voices-of-freedom-summer
Voices of Freedom Summer is comprised of a guitarist and a six person cast reciting monologues, interviews, and speeches from the Freedom Summer. The performance acts as a powerful portrait of an important part of American history.
Freedom Summer, also known as the the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive sponsored by civil rights organizations including the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Aimed at increasing black voter registration in Mississippi, the Freedom Summer workers included black Mississippians and more than 1,000 out-of-state, predominately white volunteers. The Ku Klux Klan, police and state and local authorities carried out a series of violent attacks against the activists, including arson, beatings, false arrest and the murder of at least three people.
Francis Kuhn
http://www.frankxkuhn.com/