Jim Kates

Never Turning Back: How Do We Know When We’ve Won.
January 21, 2013, 3:00 p.m.
Phelps Stokes

After his freshman year at Wesleyan U, Jim Kates volunteered for the Mississippi Summer Project, assisting in voter registration, and later became a non-violence trainer and public school teacher. Also a poet, he currently co-directs the non-profit Zephyr Press, which has featured literary works on the civil rights movement. Co-sponsored with the BCC, AAAS, CCC, and the Office of the President. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation.