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Freedom Summer Inspiring Young Voters Today
  • Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2021
  • Time: 5:00 pm
  • Location: Online

Join National Archives Foundation Executive Director Patrick Madden in a conversation with Maxim Thorne, Managing Director of the Andrew Goodman Foundation, on how a civil rights murder in 1964 has inspired a national movement of young people to vote and engage in civic life today. Nancy Thomas, Institute for Democracy & Higher Education at Tufts University, and Tamia Fowlkes, campus ambassador for the Goodman Foundation, will also give their perspectives on campus organizing, trends in student voting and respond to audience Q&A. The program will begin at 5:00 p.m. (ET).

Black History Month Programming is made possible in part by the National Archives Foundation, through the generous support of