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Gainesville Iguana Highlights “Siempre Adelante” and Freedom Project Interview

“Siempre Adelante: A Look at Faith and the Immigrant Struggle” and “History and the people who make it: Allen Cooper,” The Gainesville Iguana, from the SPOHP Archives and Jessica Taylor, November/December 2013.

Allen Cooper, an interviewee in the Mississippi Freedom Project, gave an oral history interview during a Freedom Summer reunion of civil rights workers in 2008, excerpted here in the Gainesville Iguana focusing on his activism and involvement. Jessica Taylor, a graduate coordinator at SPOHP, also wrote a feature on the recently-premiered documentary, “Siempre Adelante.”

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The Gainesville Iguana published an interview from the Mississippi Freedom Project with Allen Cooper.
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A feature on “Siempre Adelante” was also published in the November/December issue.