Civil Rights Book Discussion

The Ossining Public Library will host a book discussion with Judy Richardson and Dorothy Zellner, two of the editors of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC.  This fascinating book contains the recollections and insights of 52 intrepid women who dedicated themselves to the civil rights struggle in the South. They are intensely personal accounts -- reliving not only the jailings and beatings meted out to those challenging segregation, but also the strong bonds of comradeship and the joys of victories. This discussion will take place in the Budarz Theater.

Judy Richardson, a Tarrytown native, graduated from Sleepy Hollow H.S. and attended Swarthmore before joining SNCC.  She participated in demonstrations in Cambridge, Maryland; worked in the SNCC national office; and spent the 1964 Freedom Summer in Greenville, Mississippi.  She was part of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation to the Democratic National convention in 1964. She is a filmmaker and was an associate producer of the PBS series Eyes on the Prize.