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<p><strong>Compelling Conversation with Rubin “Hurricane” Carter<br>
Civil Rights Activist and Former Champion Boxer<br>
Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.</strong> </p>
<p>Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was a formidable boxer who had won the
European Light Welterweight Championship for two years in a row
and knocked out Emile Griffith in the first round when his
promising career was cut short. In 1966, he was falsely arrested
for the murder of three white people in a bar. Sentenced to a
triple life-sentence, Carter always maintained his innocence.
Subjected to a nineteen-year travesty of justice, he was finally
set free in 1985 by a federal court. His story was immortalized in
a Bob Dylan song and made into a Hollywood movie starring Denzel
Washington. </p>
<p>Carter has chronicled his own life in two books, <u>The
Sixteenth Round</u>, and 2011’s <u>Eye of</u> <u>the
Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom</u>. He now devotes
much of his time to speaking out on behalf of the wrongly
convicted.<br>
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<p><b>Bunker Hill Community College<strong> </strong>in A300
Auditorium</b></p>
<p>250 New Rutherford Ave.
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Boston, Massachusetts 02129-2995
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Free but you need to register for tickets at the website below<strong><br>
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<p><a href="http://www.bhcc.mass.edu/cc/index.php">Compelling
Conversations Speaker Series</a><br>
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Directions<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bhcc.mass.edu/inside/64">http://www.bhcc.mass.edu/inside/64</a><br>
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