Posted at 8:57 a.m., Friday, February 2, 2007
Civil rights leader to address 'Social Change' luncheon
Advertiser Staff
Veteran civil rights leader Robert Moses will next week be the guest speaker at the second annual Ah Quon McElrath Fund for Social Change luncheon.Moses was among the leaders in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. He was field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and later the director of the committee's Mississippi Project where he helped organize the Freedom Riders. In the 1980s, he developed the Algebra Project, which seeks to build literacy in math in inner city and rural area schools.
The luncheon is set for noon Feb. 10 at the Kapi'olani Community College cafeteria.
During his stay in Hawai'i as part of the McElrath Fund for Social Change distinguished lecture series, Moses will offer a professional development and teacher training workshop on Feb. 10 and a lecture set for noon Feb. 12 at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's Hemenway Theater.
The Feb. 10 luncheon tickets are $50 per person, $500 for a table of five. RSVP to Davianna McGregor by Tuesday at 956-7068.
