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Gov. William Winter honored at Kennedy Library
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Winter Institute sponsors new Civil Rights reader (link opens PDF file)
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Join the Welcome Table: A Year of Dialogue on Race
"Instead of reacting with anger to honest reporting of injustice, more of us ought to respond with a demand that the injustice be ended. Instead of reacting with hostility at sincere efforts to call attention to inefficiency in government, more of us ought to be concerned with reducing the inefficiency. Instead of feeling betrayed by a suggestion that there are areas where the quality of law-enforcement might be improved, more of us need to see to it that it is improved. Only in this way can our society achieve for itself the golden promise that it has the capacity to attain. The conscientious reporter can be our mirror to point up our faults, but more than that he can be our beacon to show us our goal. "
William Winter, from "The Responsible Journalist in a Free Society" speech Jackson, MS, June 25, 1966.
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Groups discuss race, The Greenwood Commonwealth, May 20, 2008
Group encouraging dialogue between races, The Greenwood Commonwealth, April 30, 2008
Historic Contest Verges On Knockdown-Dragout Racial Brawl, Newhouse News Service, March 17, 2008
The subject of race rears its head across U.S., Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, March 14, 2008
Barack Obama remporte largement le Mississippi et consolide le "vote noir", Le Monde, March 12, 2008 (article in French)
A Race Apart, BBC Radio 4, February 29, 2008
Race relations forum participants pledge to return, Daily Times Leader, February 2, 2008
Conference aims at racial justice, healing, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, November 12, 2007
When did you become aware of race?, The Commercial Dispatch, October 18, 2007
Haunted by Emmett Till murder, town reconciles, Miami Herald, October 3, 2007
Decades later, an apology for Emmett Till slaying, Atlanta Journal Constitution, October 2, 2007
Tallahatchie County to formally apologize to Till's family, The Clarion Ledger, October 2, 2007
Miss. County Sorry for Till Murder Trial, Associated Press, October 2, 2007
Murder of black teen still haunts Miss. town, The Times-Picayune, September 30, 2007
Emmett Till: Opening the doors to understanding, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, September 24, 2007
Unfinished Business, Memphis Commercial Appeal, September 19, 2007
Recovery funds missing lower-income residents, report claims, The Clarion Ledger, September 5, 2007
Tracking cold cases: Feds probing 100 lesser–known killings, The Clarion Ledger, September 2, 2007
West Point may be next stop in racial–reconciliation tour, The Clarion Ledger, August 5, 2007
Past prompts call for racial reconciliation, The Clarion Ledger, June 22, 2007
Civil rights activist June Johnson dies, The Greenwood Commonwealth, April 17, 2007
Dearman to receive prestigious Silver Em journalism award, The Neshoba Democrat, March 28, 2007
SURVEY: THE AMERICAN SOUTH Goodbye to the blues, The Economist, March 1, 2007 (SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED)
Race reconciliation group plans projects, events, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, September 26, 2006
It's Time Mississippi Established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, History News Network, September 25, 2006
'Justice can't just forget' long-ago racial killings, Atlanta Journal Constitution, September 13, 2006
Rape case divides a proud city, Miami Herald, May 23, 2006
Leaders: Racial injustice becoming a thing of the past, Clarion-Ledger, May 21, 2006
Waco Recalls a 90-Year-Old 'Horror', NPR, May 13, 2006
Apology: The word has potent meaning for some communities, Waco Tribune-Herald, May 14, 2006
In Waco, a Push To Atone for The Region's Lynch-Mob Past, Washington Post, April 26, 2006
Family history becomes 'a calling', Memphis Commercial Appeal, April 10, 2006
Civil Rights history law could be historic one, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, March 9, 2006
UM study focuses on racial discrimination's economic impact, The Sun Herald, March 3, 2006
Racism might have cost state its economy, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, March 2, 2006
Mississippi Landmarks Swept Away, Dallas Morning New, February 12, 2006
Philadelphia, Miss., Searches for an Identity Beyond Historic Racial Tension, Memphis Commercial Appeal, February 10, 2006
Struggle Bonds Women: 'We Were All Sisters', Miami Herald, February 5, 2006
Statement of the Mississippi Coalition, a multiracial group of Mississippi leaders, on its vision for Hurricane Katrina recovery, December, 2005
Katrina Blew Away These Schools' Racial Barriers, LA Times, December 14, 2005
Winter Institute awards the first CC Bryant Award for Community Organizing to the Philadelphia Coalition. October 25, 2005
Will KKK fade into history?, Clarion-Ledger, July 15, 2005
Local governments respond to concerns, Oxford Eagle, June 28, 2005
Killen trial was about justice, but sent image message, too, Clarion-Ledger, June 26, 2005
We’ve come far, and we’ve far to go, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, June 23, 2005
Relief greets Klansman’s conviction after 41 years, Sydney Morning Herald, June 23, 2005
Ex-Klansman convicted in '64 killings, Clarion-Ledger, June 22, 2005
Racial wrongs retraced, Raleigh News & Observer, June 22, 2005
Mississippi town forges a hopeful future from racist past, Boston Globe, June 20, 2005
Mississippi trial 40 years in the making, Cleveland Jewish News, June 14, 2005
Jury Selection Begins in 40-Year-Old Mississippi Civil Rights Murder Case, Voice of America, June 13, 2005
A last push for justice in civil rights-era killings, Baltimore Sun, June 13, 2005
Jury selection in Killen trial begins today, The Daily Mississippian, June 13, 2005
Mississippi trial: After a bleak era, a new day, Memphis Commercial Appeal, June 13, 2005
Murder in Mississippi: After 41 years, the infamous slayings of three civil rights activists return to center stage in the trial of Edgar Ray Killen this week, Memphis Commercial Appeal, June 12, 2005
U.S. Senate to apologize for lynchings, The Daily Mississippian, June 9, 2005
Monument to be finished by fall semester, The Daily Mississippian, June 9, 2005
Precinct named after Bryant, McComb Enterprise-Journal, March 16, 2005
Amos group aims for change, The Daily Mississippian, March 4, 2005
Amos Group Cites Audit Report, The Daily Mississippian, Feb 4, 2005
City, County Pledge Support for Amos effort, Feb. 4, 2005
'50s
Civil Rights Leader Will D. Campbell Returns to UM Campus, Named Honorary Chaplain, Oct. 12, 2004
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Audio/video of June 20, 2004, Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner Memorial Service
Winter Institute Gets Grant While Helping History Unfold June 10, 2004
Institute for Racial Reconciliation Helps Unite Town for Cause June 1, 2004
Amos Network reaches into Northeast Mississippi Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, April 26, 2004
New movement pursues ‘a stronger community for all’ Oxford Eagle, April 30, 2004
National Public Radio Features Gov. William Winter, Feb. 28, 2004