![]() ![]() ![]() Moses served as a field secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) after earning a master of arts in philosophy from Harvard University, and initiated SNCC’s Mississippi Voter Registration Project. Robert Penn Warrenĭigitized versions of the original reel-to-reel recordings Warren conducted with Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and other key 1960s civil rights activists are now searchable through the Who Speaks for the Negro? archive housed at Vanderbilt. Warren, a poet, novelist, critic and professor who graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt in 1925, traveled throughout the United States in early 1964 to interview nationally known civil rights leaders as well as others working in the trenches whose names might otherwise be lost to history. Civil Rights Movement” will take place at 4 p.m. ![]() “Recovering Lost Voices: Robert Penn Warren and the U.S. Smith Jr.’s father was a prominent civil rights leader who was also interviewed by Warren for the groundbreaking publication. ![]() Moses and Ruth Turner Perot, two civil rights activists who were interviewed by Robert Penn Warren for his 1965 book Who Speaks for the Negro?, will join the Rev. Moses, shown here in 1964, joins the panel discussion Feb. ![]()
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