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Literature TalkLiterature TalkAuthor Event | MacArthur Cotton and John Obee: Mississippi's Black Cotton
Burns Park
MacArthur Cotton shares first-person stories from Mississippi's civil rights movement, where he worked alongside Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer. Hear rare testimony about the unnamed activists whose courage drove change.
Civil rights history
Author talk
First-person testimony
Social activism
Author Event | MacArthur Cotton and John Obee: Mississippi's Black Cotton
Burns Park
Literature TalkLiterature TalkMacArthur Cotton shares first-person stories from Mississippi's civil rights movement, where he worked alongside Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer. Hear rare testimony about the unnamed activists whose courage drove change.
Civil rights history
Author talk
First-person testimony
Social activism
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