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From Our Archives

Past articles:

• Read Brother Rodgers's guest column “Dixieland:  Old Times There Should Not be Forgotten”, January 2011



• Mission Mississippi honors Gov. Winter and Rev. John Perkins (click to read their speeches), October 2010
  
  
• New historical marker commemorates civil rights activist Herbert Lee, killed in Liberty in 1961 (link opens PDF file), November 2010
  
  
• 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, February 2010
  
  
• An Econometric Study on the impact of racism on Mississippi's economy
  
  

This is content from our old website:

• McComb Legacies: Reclaiming Our Past for a Brighter Future, a Civil Rights Education Summit Honoring C.C. Bryant, McComb, MS, June 2006



• Southern Exposure: A Regional Summit on Racial Violence and Reconciliation, University of Mississippi, March 2006 (Link opens a PDF document.)
  This 3-page booklet requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.
  
  
• Statement of the Mississippi Coalition for Racial Justice, October 2005



• Philadelphia Coalition Awarded the First C.C. Bryant Award for Community Organizing, October 2005



• Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner Living Memorial Civil Rights Education Summit, Philadelphia, MS, June 2005 (Link opens a PDF document.)
  This 4-page booklet requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.



• Washington DC fundraiser, June 2005



• Presentations from the first International Conference on Race: Racial Reconciliation, University of Mississippi, October 2003



• Governor Winter's 2003 Commencement Address, University of Mississippi, May 2003



• Students Envisioning Equality through Diversity (SEED), a student group sponsored by the Winter Institute, active 1998-2003. Replaced by Respect Mississippi.



• In Memoriam: Constance Baker Motley (1921-2005)
  Listen to excerpts of a 2002 interview with Judge Motley, recorded during UM's Open Doors commemoration.
  » On Mississippi (.mp4)
  » On Mississippi (.wmv)
  » On the 1962 Ole Miss Riots (.mp4)
  » On the 1962 Ole Miss Riots (.wmv)