Our Current Work
The Winter Institute serves the University of Mississippi and the larger academic community through public speakers, scholarly research, curriculum for teachers, and conferences.
Mississippi Civil Rights Education Commission
- MS Code 37-13-191,195
- Mississippi's 2011 K-12 Social Studies Framework (Link opens a PDF document.)
This 111-page document requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. - Commission Members
- Sarah Alford Ballard
- Jackie Bland
- Dr. Wilma Clopton
- Dr. Roy DeBerry
- Dr. Susan M. Glisson, Chair
- Dr. Eddie Aaron Holloway
- Dr. Leslie Burl McLemore
- Dr. Alpha Morris
- Dr. Minion Kenneth Chauncey “KC” Morrison
- Therese Palmertree
- Dr. Ollye L. Brown Shirley
- Dr. Abdul M. Turay
- Dianne Walton
- Doretha Wiley
- Dr. W. Marty Wiseman
- Read Marty Wiseman's column on Freedom Summer and Civil Rights education in Mississippi
This 2–page column is a pdf file, which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.
Speakers and Special Events
- List of speakers and presenters we've hosted
- Annual Civil Rights Education Summits for Teachers:
Philadelphia, MS (2005) [this 4-page booklet requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view]
McComb, MS (2006)
Oxford, MS (2007) - "The Legacy of Slavery", Rita Bender's talk at the University of Mississippi on October 25, 2005
- The Mississippi Politics Symposium, about the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, during the week of the first 2008 Presidential Debate
- First International Conference on Race: Racial Reconciliation, October 2003
- Open Doors commemoration of 40 years since the University of Mississippi's integration, 2002-2003 academic year
Economic Development and Economy Resources
- DiversityData.org
- The Mississippi Economic Policy Center’s Self-Sufficiency Standard
- The Mississippi Economic Policy Center Report on the Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis
- An Econometric Study on the impact of racism on Mississippi's economy
- The Economic Policy Institute’s briefing paper “Do subprime loans create subprime cities? Surging inequality and the rise in predatory lending”
Documentary Projects
- The Mississippi Civil Rights Project website and curriculum resource for teachers and students
- Documentary film on the Freedom Riders, free to educators
- Freedom Riders' 40th Anniversary Oral History Project, digital resource of video interviews
- Opening Doors/Forging New Paths multimedia oral history project about the integration of the University Medical Center and the University of Mississippi School of Law
- Mississippi Truth Project leads statewide truth and reconciliation process
Curriculum Resources
- The African American Registry, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Breaking the Silence: Teaching the Transatlantic Slave Trade, from Tulane University
- Confederate Truths web site, in association with the Winter Institute, is an Internet extension of the book, “The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: ‘The Great Truth’ about The ‘Lost Cause,’” edited by James W. Loewen and Edward H. Sebesta, and published by the University Press of Mississippi.
- From Slavery to Reconciliation, a site by a direct descendant of two slave-owning families from Charleston, South Carolina
- The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University
- Journey to Justice blog by Clarion-Ledger reporter Jerry Mitchell
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Traveling the Underground Railroad
- Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome
- Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice at Brown University includes links to curriculum and interactive documents
- UNESCO's Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade project
Books, Academic Classes, and Papers
- “The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: ‘The Great Truth’ about The ‘Lost Cause,’” edited by James W. Loewen and Edward H. Sebesta, published by the University Press of Mississippi
- The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes by Mark Auslander
- Remembrance in Slavery's Aftermath: A Day of Commemoration, Reflection, and Celebration, February 6, 2011 in Covington and Oxford, Newton County, Georgia
- The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South by Alex Heard
- The Past is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi’s Struggle for Redemption by Harry N. MacLean
Restorative Justice and Public Education in Mississippi class: Education 333, cross-listed as EDUC 555 and LAW 698- Click here for the Powerpoint show for the Restorative Justice and Public Education in Mississippi class
- Winter Institute Director Susan Glisson's dissertation: "Neither Bedecked Nor Bebosomed:" Lucy Mason, Ella Baker and Women's Leadership and Organizing Strategies in the Struggle for Freedom"
- Hugh S. Whitaker's 1963 FSU master's thesis report "A Case Study in Southern Justice: The Emmett Till Case" (Link opens a PDF document.)
This 218-page study requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view - Ellen Whitten's paper on the original trial and the reopening of the Emmett Till case
Future Academic Service
As part of its strategic plan for the next five years, the Winter Institute will create a world class multi-disciplinary center for scholarly research, study, and teaching on race and the impact of race and racism across traditional academic areas.
The needs of communities served by the Institute will help identify academic research projects for the Institute. The research capacity and accumulated knowledge of the academic arm will provide hard data to ground the community building programs and provide protocols to measure results and verify best practices.
The teaching function of the academic center will support the Institute’s education outreach programs, and assist in developing curriculum on matters of race. The Institute’s local programs will maintain the Institute’s focus on achieving tangible results in the everyday world, provide field verification for academic research, expand the University’s definition of teaching and education to include service programs, and bring local communities and other non-campus constituencies within the University’s mission.
The Institute will provide a setting where educators, scholars, business and professional leaders, policy makers, politicians, local community leaders and members, and grassroots activists can meet to listen to and learn from each other on matters of race and racism.