50 Years-On CBS Thursday July 24, 2014

50 Years

Powered by Microsoft's Bing Pulse, the panel will be moderated by CBS News' chief Washington correspondent and "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer. The event, to be held at the historic Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City, will be carried live on July 24, 2014 at 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PT, on both the Smithsonian Channel and online at CBSNews.com.
Among the announced guests participating in the symposium will be: entertainer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte; Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga); author and historian Taylor Branch ("America in the King Years"); CBS Sports broadcaster James Brown; Brooklyn Nets star Jason Collins (the first publicly gay athlete in the NBA); Academy Award-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg; actress Rosie Perez ("Do the Right Thing"); and attorney Evan Wolfson (founder and president of Freedom to Marry).
The panelists will discuss how the civil rights movement of the 1960s has had a personal impact on their lives, as well as on the culture, society and politics of America then and now. Using their varied backgrounds, the symposium's participants will explore the powerful and tumultuous events of the summer of 1964, when three civil rights workers went missing, and were later found to have been murdered.