CREATED EQUAL: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THEN AND NOW Lecture at the Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds

CREATED EQUAL Lecture—Count Them One by One: En Route to the Voting Rights Act of
1965

Shortly after
completing law school, Gordon Martin was one of a dozen lawyers working for the
Civil Rights Division of Robert Kennedy’s Justice Department. In 1963, he
prepared United States v. Theron Lynd,
the Justice Department’s first major voting rights case to go to trial in
Mississippi. He will speak about this experience and its brave witnesses, who
are the subject of his book, “Count Them
One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote”. Co-sponsored by the Newton Human Rights
Commission, Myrtle Baptist Church, and the Newton Department of Senior
Services. At the Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds, 286 Waverley Avenue.
Free.