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The U.S. Civil Rights Experience and the Freedom Riders
Abdul Latif Jameel Hall - Room P090
AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt
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In celebration of Black History Month, join us in an intriguing discussion about U.S. civil rights with Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, an American civil rights activist and one of the Freedom Riders, a group of black and white activists who challenged the legally segregated buses and bus stations of the South by refusing to travel separately.
This event is a collaboration between the Public Diplomacy Section at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and AUC's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research and School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Make sure to join us in this very intriguing public discussion over light snacks. For more information or questions, email us at casar@aucegypt.edu.
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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
American Civil Rights Activist
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born September 14, 1941) is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as "Parchman Farm").[1] The following year she was the first white student to enroll at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi and served as the local secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She later worked as a teacher, and after her retirement she established the Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation. The foundation is dedicated to educating youth about the Civil Rights Movement and how to become activists in their communities.