ADVISORY
July 2, 2014
Contact: Mike Kanarick
802.735.7962
Mayor Miro Weinberger to Commemorate 50th Anniversary of Enactment of Civil Rights Act of 1964
To Launch Mayor’s Book Group to Explore Civic Life, History, and Culture in Burlington
Burlington, VT – Mayor Miro Weinberger will commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and launch the Mayor’s Book Group to explore civic life, history, and culture in Burlington.
WHAT: News conference to commemorate 50th Anniversary of Enactment of Civil Rights Act of 1964 and to launch Mayor’s Book Group
WHEN: Today, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 at 1:45pm
WHERE: In front of City Hall on Church Street
*Full invitation follows:
A Commemorative Event
50th Anniversary of the Enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
and
Launch of Mayor’s Book Group, which will explore civic life, history, and culture in Burlington
Wednesday, July 2, 1:45 pm
In front of City Hall, 149 Church Street
Program
- Mayor Miro Weinberger
- Dr. Denise Dunbar, Ph.D., Community Activist and Historian
- Prof. David Jenemann, Ph.D., University of Vermont Humanities Center
As part of the commemoration, Mayor Weinberger will announce a joint effort with the UVM Humanities Center to launch the Mayor’s Book Group. The Book Group – open to all and expected to meet approximately three times a year – is a new joint effort between the UVM Humanities Center and the Mayor’s Office to explore civic life, history, and culture in Burlington. The first book – 200 free copies of which will be made available courtesy of the UVM Humanities Center and in facilitation with the Fletcher Free Library – is Todd Purdum's An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in which a top Washington journalist recounts the dramatic political battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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