Lessons in Nonviolence - History Colorado Center

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Lessons in Nonviolence - History Colorado Center
Monday, March 25, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm

With Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee member John Perdew.
As a Harvard student, John Perdew joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1963, he traveled to Americus, Georgia, with Donald Harris and Ralph Allen to help organize the Sumter County Movement; he and Harris were arrested after a demonstration and charged with "seditious conspiracy".  The men were held without bail for three months and released by a three-judge federal panel who found the charge unconstitutional.  Perdew performs a selection from his autobiographical play, Education of a Harvard Guy.  Brother jeff, a Northeast Denver native and multimedia journalist, cultural and community organizer, and entrepreneur, joins the community conversation.