“But there was this feeling inside of me that it was just something I had to do.” And so it’s not something you did lightly, not something you did because it was going to be fun,” Lester told PBS in a 2014 interview. “Going to Mississippi in ’64, you knew you could be arrested, you knew you could be killed, you knew you could be injured. In 1964, he traveled to Mississippi during the Freedom Summer as part of the historic civil rights movement supporting black voter registration. He was a radio and television host and folk singer and taught banjo and guitar. He moved to New York City in 1961, where his interests and accomplishments grew. He grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, and Nashville, Tennessee, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Fisk University in 1960. Louis, Missouri, in 1939, the son of a minister. Julius Lester, a professor emeritus of Judaic and Near Eastern studies who was nationally renowned as author, civil rights activist, musician and photographer, died Jan.
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