Lowell Lecture
The Civil Rights Movement Comes to Harvard Square
Date & Time
Nov. 19, 2014
Location
First Parish Church in Cambridge
3 Church Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Betsy Siggins, founder Folk New England Jack Landron, musician
Presenting Organization
Topics
Fifty years ago the Civil Rights Movement, which was culminating nationally with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, came to Harvard Square in music. Club 47 (predecessor to the current Club Passim) booked African American artists active in the Southern Civil Rights Movement. What did these performers experience in Harvard Square? How did their music resonate in Cambridge? A panel including Betsy Siggins, who booked acts at Club 47, and Jack Landron, who performed as Jackie Washington, discusses the music that brought the Civil Rights Movement home to Harvard Square.
Co-sponsored by Folk New England and Passim