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After college, Halberstam moved to Mississippi to cover the burgeoning Civil Rights movement. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his critical New York Times coverage of the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese government...
Four decades later, a group of 10 Harvard students spent their spring breaks traveling through Mississippi to explore the legacy of the civil rights movement, and to discover how much civil rights and student advocacy have changed since then...
...alternative spring break trips sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), “Civil Rights and Service” aimed to provide an opportunity for students to meet Mississippi leaders of the civil rights movement, as well as debate the role of student leadership in the context of current social issues, said Gene A. Corbin, executive director of PBHA and leader of the trip...
After flying into Memphis and visiting the Civil Rights Museum, the group stationed itself in Jackson, Mississippi. There, students spent their mornings listening to speakers and their afternoons volunteering with the after-school program at Stewpot Community Services...
Despite the continued poverty and effectual segregation, Marshall L. Ganz ’64-’92, an alumnus who dropped out of Harvard to participate in the civil rights movement as part of the Mississippi Summer Project, said the state has come a long...