By Michael Farrell
Paper to Desmond Greaves Summer School
30th August 2008
What I have to say will be only partly historical. The Civil Rights Commemoration Committee, with which I am involved, has from the beginning stressed that while it wished to mark the 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights movement in a dignified way, it also wanted to look forward and try to apply the lessons and ideals of the Civil Rights movement to contemporary problems and challenges. So I will be trying to do that today.
