Does My Voice Count? Voter Suppression Then and Now

Join us this Wednesday for an amazing event!

Does My Voice Count? Voter Suppression Then and Now

Wednesday, February 6
11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Fusselman Hall, room 120
Kentfield Campus

Photos and Discussion Presented by Jim Lemkin 
Historical and Political Context by Instructors Walter Turner and Yolanda Bellisimo
Photography exhibit on the second floor of the Learning Resources Center: Through April 30, 2019

In 1965, Jim Lemkin was a 19-year-old college student in New York who hopped in a van on his winter break with a bunch of other college students and drove to Mississippi to register African-Americans to vote. It was called Mississippi Freedom Christmas. Jim is a wonderful person. He's now 71 and lives here in Marin, and he wants to pass the torch to a new generation and talk about how voter suppression is still happening today. 

Sponsored by Umoja and the College of Marin Library. More information is online at http://libguides.marin.edu/vote.

Tylertown, Mississippi, 1965. An elderly gentleman registering to vote for the first time in his long life.