as dory ladner says, he got gamed. charlie would work as a snik organizers chiefly in sunflower county in the delta. he would in 1964 be one of the primary architects of the mississippi summer project, though he was also someone who opposed the project. it was, i'm sure many of you have seen this document, this was charlie who wrote the prospectus for the freedom schools, schools intended in his words to fill an intellectual and create a vacuum in the lives of young negro mississippianss and so get them to articulate their own demands and questions. he's remained an activist in the decade first and he has also worked as a journalist for national public radio and national geographic, for all africa.com. i'll embarrass him when i say he's probably person on the brown faculty who never went back for a second year of college. he is also the author of a series of book that are quite extraordinary. radical equations. civil rights of mississippi. on the road to freedom, a guided tour of the civil rights trail, and last but no

the first person i'm going to introduce here is dory ladner. she comes from hattiesburg, mississippi, and she is a foundation member of the mississippi movement. she was recruited into the movement, among others, by clyde kanard who was adviser to the local naacp chapter. his name will not be mentioned in the events taking place in austin. he should be remembered. he's one of three mentors that dory would have occasion to bury. the others being vernon damar and metger evers. as a student, she was drawn into protests. she was expelled from jackson state for protesting in defense of the tugalu 9. she participated in sit-ins. she work with the freedom riders. she was a founding member of cofo. she was one of the organ iers of the mississippi summer project. she was director of the project in nach he's, mississippi miss. she's one of the few people i know that participated in the march in washington and, the selma march and the poor people march. she has continue to work as an activist from the movement to the end of the war in vietnam, to communit