Jewish Activists Remember the Civil Rights Struggle

Note new time and location. Three civil rights activists–all Jewish women–will recount their experiences, then answer questions from the audience.

Del (Greenblatt) Sweeney and Helene (Wilson) Ageloff were Freedom Riders, both imprisoned in Mississippi for their parts in that June 1961 protest.

Carol Frank helped desegregate the restaurant at the Belvedere Hotel and was arrested at the July 4, 1963 protest to integrate Gwynn Oak Amusement Park.

Del was featured on Oprah Winfrey's show as part of the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides.

Helene was on the same train from New Orleans to Jackson, Mississippi as Stokely Carmichael, when he was a student at Howard University and she was a D.C. housewife.

Carol was one of many congregants at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation who followed the call of their rabbi, Morris Lieberman, to help desegregate Baltimore.