Freedom Summer - Highlight video from the presentation on August 24, 2024

On August 24, at the Benicia Public Library a special presentation recalling Freedom Summer. Freedom Summer: 60 Years of Voting Rights, will link the struggles and achievements of 1964 to the realities and significance of voting in 2024. Linda Youngblood Wright will bring a character interpretation of Fannie Lou Hamer. I will tell my story of being a volunteer with Freedom Summer. Syria T. Berry will evoke the spirit of summer 1964 with songs of the era