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Finding Freedom book signing

Finding Freedom book signing

Jacqueline Johnson invites you to join her in celebrating the monograph Finding Freedom Memorializing the Voices of Freedom Summer at a book signing.

Finding Freedom: Memorializing the Voices of Freedom Summer is the first book to provide detailed information about the Freedom Summer Memorial on the campus of Western College at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The monument was dedicated in 2000 to commemorate Western???s role in Freedom Summer and to serve as a memorial to James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman, the Freedom Summer trainees subsequently murdered in Mississippi. Their deaths focused national and world attention on the continuing existence of segregation and violent racism in the United States. Ultimately, Freedom Summer marked an important milestone in the history of the civil rights movement.

Date/Time:

Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Approximate duration of 2 hour(s)

Admission:

Free and open to the public

Location:

Shriver Center Bookstore [map], Oxford Campus [map] - Directions

Presented By:

Miami University Press and the English Department

URL:

http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/mupress/details/jjohnson_freedomsummer.html

Contact:

Roxanne Carter, carterr2 AT miamioh.edu

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