Queens College discussion panel – FREEDOM HIGH
FREEDOM SUMMER PANEL AT QUEENS COLLEGE – MAY 13
Following the Sunday, May 13 performance, at 5:15 pm, Queens College alumni will discuss the themes of FREEDOM HIGH in relation to their experiences as Freedom Summer volunteers and civil rights activists.
Panelists are:
Mark Levy, who, with his wife, Betty (Bollinger) Levy (deceased), was co-director and teacher of the Meridian Freedom School during Freedom Summer and assigned to the same project area with Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. Mr. Levy has generously provided rare photographs and documents for the production.
Dorothy Miller Zellner ‘60, who participated in Freedom Summer as a Queens College graduate and whose husband, also a Queens College graduate, was among the first white members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Dean Savage, Queens College professor of Sociology, and Rabbi Moshe Shur, head of the Queens College chapter of Hillel, who both volunteered for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1965 to register African Americans to vote in 120 counties in five Southern states. This major voter registration effort came to be known as the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) Project, which resulted in the registration of 49,000 new voters in the South.