Bernard Lafayette and Andrew Young to discuss the Freedom Riders Feb. 16 - Quinnipiac University – Hamden, Connecticut
Civil rights activists Bernard Lafayette and Andrew Young will discuss the Freedom Riders as part of Quinnipiac University's annual Black History Month event at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16, at Burt Kahn Court on the Mount Carmel Campus.
Emmy Award winning journalist Ed Gordon, host of "Weekly With Ed Gordon" on Black Entertainment Television, will moderate the discussion.
The Freedom Riders were a group of civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in the 1960s to test a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that outlawed racial segregation in the restaurants and waiting rooms of terminals serving buses that crossed state lines.
Lafayette, who was among the Freedom Riders, now teaches at Emory University and conducts workshops worldwide. Young is founding principal and chair of GoodWorks International, an organization that embraces his long-held mission of facilitating economic development in the Caribbean and Africa.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 203-582-8652.
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