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Friday, August 31, 2007 |
| 5:00-6:00 PM
Opening/Registration (Lobby)
6:00 PM
Old-Fashioned Mass Meeting
Freedom Singers with Rutha
Harris
Keynote Speakers: Congressman John Lewis and Rev. C.T. Vivian of SCLC,
and Congressman Sanford Bishop
Tributes to: Civil Rights Contributors & Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and SCLC/SCOPE Field
Workers
Venue:
South Georgia Technical College
900 South Georgia Tech Parkway
Americus,
GA 31709
James S. Peters Gymnasium (The Hangar)
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Saturday, September 1, 2007 |
| 9:00-11:00 AM
Exhibition: "Homecoming" Remembering the Americus-Sumter County Movement
Venue:
Lake Blackshear Regional Library
307 East Lamar Street
Americus, GA
11:00 AM-12 Noon
Exhibition of Memorabilia (Video)
12:00- 2:00 PM
Old-fashioned church dinner
2:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Talent/Vendors/Rides/Other Activities
9:00 PM
Freedom Ball (Music from the 60s, 70s, & 80s)
Venue:
Americus//Sumter Exhibition Center
(Americus & Sumter County Fairgrounds) Highway 30,
Americus
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Sunday, September 2, 2007 |
| 11:00 AM - 2:00
PM Exhibition of Memorabilia
Venue:
Lake Blackshear Regional Library
307 East Lamar Street, Americus
3:00 PM
Closing Ceremony Venue: Friendship Missionary Baptist
Church
411 Cotton Avenue
Americus, GA 31709
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