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Immediate: September 10, 2014 Media Contact:Chuck Cutolo 516.572.7811Email: chuck.cutolo@ncc.eduAlicia Steger 516.572.9634Email:  alicia.steger@ncc.eduncc.edu/newsreleases

Nassau Community College Presents Constitution Day 2014

A Tribute to Freedom Summer, 1964: The passionate commitment to have the Constitution keep faith with itself

 

September 17 

 

Garden City, NY – Nassau Community College celebrates Constitution Day this year with the program A Tribute to Freedom Summer, 1964: The passionate commitment to have the Constitution keep faith with itself. The event will take place on Wednesday, September 17 at 9:30 a.m. in Room 252-253 of the College Center Building.This year marks the 50th anniversary of "Freedom Summer" when close to 1,000 volunteers, most of them college students, went to Mississippi to combat, through non-violent persistence, the pervasive denial to African Americans of the right to vote. NCC's observance of Constitution Day honors the commitment and the courage of the individuals who participated in the voter registration and educational efforts associated with Freedom Summer. In that spirit, the Public Broadcasting System's series The American Experience's presentation of the documentary Freedom Summer will be played in an encore performance at NCC.

For more information about Nassau Community College's celebration of Constitution Day, which is free, open to the public and accessible to the disabled, call 516.572.7811.About Nassau Community College Nassau Community College, part of the State University of New York, is an institution where nearly 23,000 full- and part-time students and almost 15,000 continuing and professional students start and continue their successful journey through higher education. More than 70 fields of study are offered on a 225-acre campus located in the center of Long Island. As the largest single-campus two-year college in New York State, Nassau Community College maintains a national reputation for excellence.

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