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

Civil Rights Resources

Visit our new resource for teachers and students, a county-by-county look at the people, places, and events of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement: www.mscivilrightsproject.com

Suggested Reading

Glowing review for new Civil Rights reader sponsored by the Winter Institute
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Click here to download a pdf document with a timeline of selected events during the Civil Rights Movement specific to Mississippi. This 8-page document requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.

Click here to download a pdf file of suggested reading on the Civil Rights movement. This 4-page document requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.

Other Websites

• In Memoriam John Hope Franklin (1915-2009), a great friend of the Winter Institute: Newsweek tribute  Washington Post tribute
• DVD documentary on the Freedom Riders—free to educators
• Study guide to the award-winning documentary film series Eyes on the Prize, produced by Facing History and Ourselves
• Brown v. Board of Education teaching resources (through Trinity College of Hartford, Connecticut)
• California Newsreel: film and video for social change
• “Lyrical Freedom Riders,” song by Bryan Field McFarland