I had planned to write about the fun I had (or at least what passes for fun in DC) last night at a reception and dinner to mark the placement of the “world’s largest archive of personal accounts of civil rights history" in the Library of Congress. Voices of Civil Rights is a joint project of AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Library of Congress. The multimedia project has collected thousands of first-person stories and oral histories of ordinary people who witnessed or were part of the civil rights movement.
Unfortunately, the event was postponed "due to inclement weather." Mind you, in DC a weather emergency ranges from a couple of feet of snow to the mere threat of snow. For this New Yorker, snowy rain is not a weather emergency. That is, unless you just got your hair done and you don't have a hat or an umbrella. Whatever.
If you want to add your voice (the archive will now be donated on March 17), click here.
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