Saturday, January 14, 7pm, First Congregational Church, 444 E. Broad St.

Paisha Thomas and Bill Cohen will sing the songs that non-violent civil rights demonstrators sang to embolden themselves in the early 1960’s, when blacks and whites marched together, were beaten together, and were sometimes killed together as they campaigned for simple human rights.

The songs will punctuate vintage film footage of some of the major triumphs and tragedies of the early civil rights movement. Among them:

• 1960 lunch counter sit-ins

• 1961 freedom rides

• 1963 Birmingham church bombing and the March on Washington

• 1964 murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi

• 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches

Admission is free but we’ll take up a free-will offering; the proceeds will go to the Center for Healthy Families, a Columbus non-profit organization that helps teenage mothers deliver healthy babies, stay in school, delay future pregnancies, and stabilize their families.

Contact: 614-263-3851 or BillCohen@columbus.rr.com