Charles E. Cobb Jr., civil rights activist, award winning journalist and author of On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trial, will speak about the modern civil rights movement, 3 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 26, in the Multicultural Center at the University Library.
Cobb will discuss civil rights from the perspective of grassroots organizing as opposed to mass public protests led by charismatic leaders who are often more closely associated with the movement.
He will also discuss his book, which gives an in-depth look at the American civil rights history. The book includes maps, pictures, newspaper coverage and firsthand interviews of participants in the civil rights battles.
“I hope that folks at Sacramento State and the larger community will take the opportunity to hear and meet this civil rights movement veteran and learn about the struggle to gain the Black vote and equal education in the deep South,” says Barbara Takei, a Sacramento area author and civil rights activist.
Cobb was the first black staff writer and member at National Geographic, was one of the founders of the National Association of Black Journalists and was honored by the organization in 2008 and enshrined in their hall of fame.
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Sacramento State’s Lana Tsiberman can be reached at 278-6156.
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