The American South,
Then and Now
From the L. Q. C. Lamar Society to the Endowment for the Future of the South
November 18-20, 2004
Center for the Study of Southern Culture • University of Mississippi
Symposium Program
Sessions will be in the Rehearsal Hall, Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts.

Thursday, November 18
5:00 p.m. Opening Address
William Winter, Jackson, Mississippi

7:00 p.m. Reception
Isom Place

Friday, November 19
9:00 a.m. Welcome

9:30 a.m. Panel: The L. Q. C. Lamar Society
Mike Cody, Memphis
Patt Derian, Miami, Florida
Joel Fleischman, Duke University*
Jim Leutze, University of North Carolina
at Wilmington
Luther Munford, Jackson, Mississippi
Tom Naylor, Vermont
Ed Yoder, Washington, D.C.

11:00 a.m. Panel: Race Relations
Leroy Clemons Addy, Neshoba County
NAACP*
Constance Curry, Atlanta, Georgia
John Egerton, Nashville, Tennessee
Myrlie Evers-Williams, Evers Institute*
Susan Glisson, William Winter Institute
for Racial Reconciliation

12:30 p.m. Lunch Address
Brandt Ayers, Anniston Star

2:00 p.m. Panel: Southern Philanthropy
Hodding Carter III, Knight Foundation
Lynn Huntley, Southern Education Foundation*
George Penick, Foundation for the Mid-South
C. Thompson Wacaster, Phil Hardin Foundation

3:30 p.m. Panel: Democrats and Republicans
Jack Bass, College of Charleston
Thad Cochran, Washington, D.C.
Ferrel Guillory, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Steve Holland, Plantersville, Mississippi
Curtis Wilkie, University of Mississippi
Saturday, November 20

9:00 a.m. Panel: Religion and Public Policy
William T. Greer Jr., Virginia Wesleyan College*
Susan Pace Hamill, University of Alabama
School of Law
Mark Silk, Greenberg Center for Religion and
the Media
Dolphus Weary, Mission Mississippi*

10:30 a.m. Panel: The Urban South
Don H. Doyle, Vanderbilt University
John Fowlkes, Shelby County, Tennessee
Leslie McLemore, Jackson State University*
Richard Vinroot, Charlotte, North Carolina
Robert Walker, Vicksburg, Mississippi*
Ricky Wilkins, Memphis, Tennessee

2:00 p.m. Panel: The Media
Paul Greenberg, Arkansas Democrat
Hank Klibanoff, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Charles Overby, Freedom Forum

3:00 p.m. Panel: Southern Culture Today
William Dunlap, Washington, D.C.*
Ralph Eubanks, Library of Congress*
David Goldfield, University of North Carolina
at Charlotte
Randall Kenan, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill*
John Peede, Washington, D.C.
John Shelton Reed, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Julia Reed, New York Times and Vogue

4:00 p.m. Panel: Addressing the South’s Problems
David Dodson, MDC, Chapel Hill*
Leslie Dunbar*
Hector Mendoza, La Prenza Latina, Memphis,
Tennessee*
Ronnie Musgrove, University of Mississippi
Mike Retzer, Washington, D.C.*
Steve Suitts, Southern Education Foundation

7:00 p.m. Dinner Honoring Lamar Society Members
*Pending