Announcements


October 6-9, 2010: Coming to the Table training “Healing Historical Harms: Exploring History to Create a Positive Future” (pdf) Memphis, TN

The first Summer Youth Institute was a great success!

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Winter Institute
multimedia project on the integration of the University Medical Center and the UM School of Law

wins Mississippi Historical Society Oral History Award

Mississippi Truth Project begins statewide truth and reconciliation process

Visit our new resource for teachers and students: www.mscivilrightsproject.com

Join the Welcome Table: An Era of Dialogue on Race

Restorative Justice and
Public Education in Mississippi

Education 333
Cross-listed at EDUC 555 and LAW 698

Click here for a PDF file of the course flyer

Click here for a PDF file of the course Spring 2010 syllabus

Are you interested in the history of public education in Mississippi?

Are you curious as to how the issue of race shapes educational policy?

Would you like to learn more about the current status of education in Mississippi?

If you said yes to any of these questions

You must take:

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Restorative Justice and Public Education in Mississippi
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Taught by Rita Bender and Bill Bender. Both of these attorneys have practiced in the Federal Courts and in the State of Washington for many years. Rita has been a civil rights and access to justice activist, and was a COFO community organizer. Bill has extensive experience as a civil rights, governmental misconduct and constitutional law litigator.

For more information about the course, see the proposed syllabus:
Education 333, Year-Long (Students may elect to take first semester without enrolling in second semester)
(Cross listed as EDUC 555 and LAW 698)
Thursdays, 2-4:30
For more information, call 662-915-6734 or email glisson@olemiss.edu