The Second Annual Special Collections Lecture will feature three Freedom Summer participants who will share their stories and discuss the impact of Freedom Summer. “Telling Our Stories: Building the Freedom Summer Legacy” will be presented on Friday, Oct. 10, in Room 320, King Library on the campus of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, from 4 to 6 p.m. The program will begin at 4:15 p.m. and is free and open to the public. A reception will follow, during which attendees are invited to view the accompanying exhibit and speak with the panelists.

Carol Gross Colca, Roland Duerksen, and Mark Levy all participated in the events of Freedom Summer in 1964, and all have donated personal papers from that experience to the Freedom Summer Archive in the Western College Memorial Archives. Their donations are highlighted in the fall exhibit, Stories of Freedom Summer from the Western College Memorial Archives, in the Walter Havighurst Special Collections exhibit gallery. The exhibit runs through December 12, 2014, and is open to the public Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The program will lead off a weekend of events commemorating the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, including a reunion of participants followed by the national conference 50 Years After Freedom Summer: Understanding the Past, Building the Future, October 13-14.

For more information on the Annual Special Collections Lecture, see http://spec.lib.miamioh.edu/home/annual-lecture/ .