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Newsline: February 2001 CIVIL RIGHTS EXHIBIT AT BROOKLYN LIBRARY As part of its celebration of February as "Black History Month," the Brooklyn Public Library will present an historical civil rights exhibit from February 10 to March 8 at its headquarters at Grand Army Plaza, near Prospect Park. The exhibit, called "The Long Walk to Freedom," is the result of two years of in-depth study by almost 200 sixth, seventh and eighth grade students from the Computer School, a public middle school in Manhattan whose population is one of the most ethnically diverse in the city. It highlights the efforts of 16 civil rights activists, both black and white, who devoted much of their time during the 1960s seeking to eliminate racial inequality and to foster interracial harmony. Among those profiled in the exhibit are Bob Moses, a New York City teacher who was raised in a Harlem housing development and became the architect of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project; Carolyn Goodman, mother of the murdered Andrew Goodman, one of three young men shot to death for their efforts in trying to obtain voting rights for blacks in Mississippi, and the Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, senior pastor of Harlemžs Canaan Baptist Church, and the nation's foremost authority on the music of the African-American religious experience. Also in the exhibit are Clarence Jones, co-founder the Inner City Broadcasting Corp., who served as a speechwriter and counsel to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Dr. Martin Luther King, and Manhattan Borough President Virginia C. Fields, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, who, when only 17, took part with Dr. King in the marches in Birmingham. Jones a graduate of Columbia University who earned his law degree from Boston University, was the first African-American to become a partner, vice president and allied member of the New York Stock Exchange. Fields, who moved to New York in 1970 after earning a degree in sociology from Knoxville College and a masteržs from Indiana University, worked as social services coordinator of the first work release program for city prisoners. She served as chair of Community Board 10 and in 1989 became the first African-American woman elected from Manhattan to the City Council. Others included in the exhibit are Gloria Richardson, who took part in the de-segregation efforts of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in Maryland; Matt Jones, who was arrested 29 times during his career as an activist, and union activist Moe Foner. The exhibit was created through the efforts of Community Works, which was founded in 1990 to forge links between diverse cultures and communities. Prior to its viewing at the Brooklyn Public Library, the exhibit was on display at the Grand Central Station terminal February 5 to 9. It was on view in the North Bridge of the World Financial Center at 200 Liberty St., Manhattan, from January 4 to 31. |
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