If it weren't so expensive, the Newseum would be my very favorite museum in Washington -- yes, it's a shameless ad for some of our biggest mainstream media companies, which fund it, but then I am a First Amendment specialist and this place is a paean to the First Amendment. But thanks to a stroke of luck, we have managed to get our hands on some free tickets that are good for the first day of admission and the following day.
So we will descend on the Newseum on Saturday, December 7 at noon to see its recently opened exhibit on the role of students in the American Civil Rights Movement. There is a Reed connection -- ten Reedies went to Mississippi in the summer of 1964 to participate in Freedom
Summer, and one of them lives in DC. Leading us in
discussion, then, will be Bernard Wasow '65, one of the ten Reedies.
We have 28 free tickets to the Newseum, so this special offer will be available to the first
28 RSVPs only. The entire collection is quite voluminous, but due to the "day after" deal you don't have to wear
yourself out seeing it all in one
day, if you can budget enough time to return on Sunday, too.
To RSVP, contact Paul Levy '72 at plevy <at> citizen.org. The nearest subway stop is Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter (yellow & green lines), although Judiciary Square on the red line is also reasonable close
hello Paul
ReplyDeleteMy name is David Goodyear and I was one of the Reed students who went to Mississippi with COFO/SNCC in the summer of '64. I will not be able to attend the event this Saturday (I am in San Francisco), but could possibly add some detail or info to Bernie's talk. I don't know how to get in touch with him. If you could convey my email address to him, I would be glad to add my perspective of that summer as it appeared from Laurel, MS.
Thanks.
David (davidgoodyear@sbcglobal.net)