Freedom Wheels Still Rollin'

The Spirituals Project Celebrates
the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Rides

Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 7:30 pm

Lone Tree Arts Center – Main Stage Theatre

IN ADVANCE: $18 Adults / $15 Seniors & Students 

AT THE DOOR: $20 Adults / $17 Seniors & Students 
Lone Tree Arts Center Box Office 720.509.1000

Online at: http://tinyurl.com/tsplonetreetix 

Join the dynamic Spirituals Project Choir for an evening of stories and songs celebrating this historic actions of the Freedom Rides, and the brave women and men – black and white, young and old, Northern and Southern – who lived their ideals and put their lives on the line for the cause of justice.

From May through November 1961, more than 400 Americans risked their lives, enduring savage beatings and imprisonment, simply for traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom Riders met bitter racism and mob violence along the way, sorely testing their belief in non-violent activism.

Dr. Margaret Whitt is Professor Emerita of English of the University of Denver, where she taught for 27 years. Dr. Whitt taught several courses on the history and literature of the Civil Rights Movement, the most popular course being “The Long Walk Towards Justice.” She also led students on tours of the most well-known Civil Rights locations in the South, from Arkansas to Mississippi to Alabama to Georgia. Her most recent book, Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement: An Anthology, is the first anthology dedicated to stories inspired by events of the American Civil Rights Movement.