RFK in the Delta, Revisited 2012

Abstract

Marian Wright Edelman, who helped lead Senator Robert F. Kennedy on a tour of the Mississippi Delta that highlighted hunger in 1967 appears on a panel moderated by Ellen Meacham, journalism instructor at the Meek School of Journalism and New Media. They are joined on the panel by community leaders Owen Brooks and James Figgs as well as George Lapides, who covered the trip for the Memphis Press Scimitar and Nick Kotz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who wrote the definitive book about hunger in America, Let Them Eat Promises