Chude Pam Allen

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Freedom Summer: 50 Years Later, Lessons for Today

Freedom Summer: 50 Years Later, Lessons for Today, was held July 27, 2014, at The Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics, San Francisco.

Join us for an evening with three amazing organizers who span more than 50 years of action fighting for racial and social justice. We will reflect on what the original 1964 Freedom Summer has meant for our work today, and explore the importance of the 2014 Freedom Summer for our work going forward.

Speakers: Phil Hutchings, Karly Safar, and Chude Pam Allen. Poetry by Joe Navarro.

Chude Pam Allen is a member of the Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement and coordinates speakers for schools and community groups. Her writings on her experiences as a white freedom school teacher in Mississippi can be found on their website, www.crmvet.org, under her name in “Veterans Roll Call”. Prior to going to Mississippi, Chude was active in the student movement in Atlanta, Georgia while an exchange student at Spelman College.

After leaving the South, Chude was an early organizer of the Women’s Liberation Movement. She taught anti-racism workshops for both women’s liberation groups and the YWCA and wrote the chapter “Woman Suffrage: Feminism and White Supremacy” in Reluctant Reformers: Racism and Social Reform Movements in the United States. In 1972 she went to Cuba on the Venceremos Brigade. From 1977 to 1979 she was editor of Union WAGE, the newspaper of Union Women’s Alliance to Gain Equality.

The event was Sponsored by Freedom Road Socialist Organization/Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad.

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