RUTHA MAE HARRIS A CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT SONGBIRD OF FREEDOM AND JUSTICE

She traveled over 50,000 miles singing for the cause of freedom and raising funds for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. She performed in 46 states, the Virgin Islands, Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, The Civic Opera House in Chicago, Illinois, The United Nations, New Port Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, The March on Washington and in the presence of the 44th President Barack Obama just to name a few. She appeared in the movie "The Preachers Wife: featuring Whitney Young and a choir member with the Georgia Mass Choir. She is known as the Civil Rights Movement Songbird and you will hear the songs and events that occurred during the Civil Rights Movement era. Seats are selling so please contact a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. General contact number is 352-339-5917. Join us and support this event and help raise scholarship funding to support a well-deserved high school graduating senior.  

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Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm