Dr.
Susan M. Glisson, Director
William Winter
Institute for
Racial Reconciliation
The University of Mississippi
PO Box 1848
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
fax: 662-915-6728
phone: 662-915-6734
e-mail: glisson@olemiss.edu
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McComb Legacies:
Reclaiming Our Past for a Brighter Future
A Civil Rights Education Summit
Honoring C.C. Bryant
June 21-23, 2006
McComb High School
310 7th Street
McComb, Mississippi
| Wednesday, June 21: | ||
| 8:00 am | Registration and Coffee Hour | |
| 9:00 am | Welcome Mayor Thomas Walman, City of McComb Charles Dunagin, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, McComb School District Dr. Pat Cooper, Superintendent, McComb School District |
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| 9:15 am | Remarks Dr. Hank Bounds, Mississippi State Superintendent |
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| 9:30 a m | Opening Panel "Civil Rights Teaching Today": Panelists: Dr. John Dittmer, Maggie Donovan, Dr. Jenice View, Hollis Watkins, Charles Dunagin |
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| 10:30 - 11:30 am | Concurrent Workshops: | |
| Workshop 1: Presenter: Jennifer Abraham, The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, Louisiana State University |
Workshop 2: Presenter: Adrienne Kupper, New York Historical Society "Slavery in New York: Exploring the Topic with Students and Teachers" |
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| 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Lunch on your own | |
| 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Concurrent Workshops: | |
| Workshop 1: Presenter: Jennifer Clark, Facing History and Ourselves "Educational Equity: Revisiting the Little Rock Nine" |
Workshop 2: Deborah Menkart and Dr. Jenice View, Teaching for Change "Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching" |
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| 2:00 - 3:00 pm | Concurrent Workshops: | |
| Workshop 1: Presenter: Lecia Brooks, Southern Poverty Law Center “The Stories Told and the People Honored in the Civil Rights Memorial Center” |
Workshop 2: Maggie Donovan, Cape Cod, MA, educator and SNCC activist "Bring it on: Young Children Respond to the Civil Rights Movement" |
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| 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Break | |
| 4:00 - 5:15 pm | McComb Civil Rights Driving Tour: Bus 1, led by Tazwell Bowsky | |
| 5:30 - 7:00 pm | McComb Civil Rights Driving Tour: Bus 2, led by Tazwell Bowsky, ending at the Martin Luther King Community Center | |
| 7:00 - 8:30 pm | Reception in Honor of McComb Civil Rights Leaders at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Community Center (601 Martin Luther King Drive) Remarks: The Honorable William F. Winter and “Telling a Story: C.C. Bryant narrative” Judith Barlow-Roberts, University of Mississippi |
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| Thursday, June 22: | ||
| 9:00 am | Keynote Address: Hollis Watkins, Southern Echo |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 am | Concurrent Workshops: | |
| Workshop 1: Presenter: Dr. Nancy Bercaw, University of Mississippi "Tracing Slavery in the Neshoba County Archives" |
Workshop 2: Dr. Jennifer Stollman, Salem College "Activists Talking Past Each Other: The Challenges of Racial Reconciliation on a College Campus" |
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| 11:00 am - 12:00 noon | General Session: Brenda Travis Former McComb Student Activist |
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| 12:00 - 1:30 pm | Lunch on your own | |
| 1:30 - 2:30 pm | Concurrent Workshops: | |
| Workshop 1: 1906 Atlanta Race Riots presentation |
Workshop 2: McComb Teachers/Students |
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| 2:30 - 3:30 pm | Concurrent Workshops: | |
| Workshop 1: L.B. Fowler, Lesson Plans for Grade 7-12 |
Workshop 2: Alex Thomas, Developing Sites for Cultural Tourism |
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| 3:30 - 4:30 pm | Concurrent Workshop: | |
Workshop 1: |
Workshop 2: Lillie Gayle Smith, Delta State University "Exploring the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Curriculum" |
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| 4:30 - 5:30 pm | General Planning Session for CREED: Implementation of SB 2718 |
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| 7:00 pm | Burglund Honorary Graduation Ceremony at Higgins Middle School (formerly Burglund High School) Speaker: Brenda Travis |
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| Friday, June 23 | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 am | Keynote Address: Recent Historiography on the Civil Rights Movement Dr. John Dittmer, DePauw University |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 am | General Session: Dr. James T. Campbell Brown University "Facing History: The Politics of Retrospective Justice" |
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| 11:00 - 12:00 noon | General Session: Dr. Nan Woodruff UNESCO’s Breaking the Silence: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Project |
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To learn more, you may contact the Winter Institute at 662-915-6734 or wwirr@olemiss.edu.