Learning from the Civil Rights Movement: Current Concerns of African Americans in Iowa
Charles McDew
Monday, 22 Oct 2007 at 2:00 pm – Black Cultural Center
Charles McDew, one of the principal architects in the founding of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) of 1960, will discuss his experiences during the Civil Rights movement as well as current issues concerning African Americans in Iowa. SNCC was a fundamental organization of the American Civil Rights Movement, playing a major role in the Freedom Rides, the 1963 March on Washington and Mississippi Freedom Summer. McDew was the chairman of SNCC from 1961 to 1964. He recently retired from Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis.Cosponsored By:
- IA Commission on the Status of African Americans
- Multicultural Student Affairs
- airfare
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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