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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17^TH AT 7:30 PM
ELIZABETH MARTINEZ: LETTERS FROM MISSISSIPPI (Zephyr Press)

Letters from Mississippi is a collection of moving, personal letters written by volunteers who worked in Mississippi during the summer of 1964 in a campaign organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to register Black voters, conduct black history Freedom Schools and break through the state’s ironclad racism with nationwide exposure . Out of print for 30 years, this edition contains new introductory remarks by editor, Elizabeth Martinez, a history of SNCC by Julian Bond, and notes about what happened to the volunteeers after 1964

The book should be of special interest to teachers, activists and community organizers working with young people. Most of the volunteers were between 18-25 and they went to Mississippi summer even though two volunteers like themselves and a local organizer were killed by the KKK.a few days before they headed South. Their letters bring to life vividly a crucial period in the U.S. when youth  were making history in many countries in many ways.

Editor Elizabeth Martínez is a writer, activist, and lecturer with over 40 years of work for social justice. She is co-founded and currently chairs the Institute for MultiRacial Justice to help build alliances among communities of color. She has published six books and numerous articles.

Tonight she will be joined by PAM ALLEN, whose letters are included in the anthology.

Pam was a Freedom School teacher in Holly Springs, Miss. that summer and later one of the first organizers of the women’s movement in New York and San Francisco. In the 1970s she was editor of the UNION WAGE newspaper. She is the author of the chapter on women’s suffrage in RELUCTANT REFORMERS: RACISM IN SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, edited by Robert Allen.

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