Announcements

SAVE THE DATE!
The Winter Institute will host the
3rd annual Civil Rights
Education Summit

June 27-29, 2007
in Oxford, Mississippi


On June 21, 2007, the Winter Institute helps kick off The Welcome Table:
A Year of Dialogue on Race

2007 Civil Rights Education Summit

June 27-28, 2007
Oxford, Mississippi
University of Mississippi campus

DRAFT SCHEDULE OF EVENTS - subject to be revised

click here for a printable PDF copy of the draft schedule

Wednesday, June 27:
Time
12:00 noon Registration
1:00 Welcome and introduction of speaker
1:15 Keynote address: Dr. John Hope Franklin
Click here to read an online interview with Dr. Franklin
  Session 1: Session 2: Session 3: Film Room:
2:15 Jennifer Abraham: "Oral History is Hands-On History: Students Preserve Baton Rouge’s Desegregation Efforts" Jennifer Jones-Clark: “What is 'the Prize?': Exploring the Goals and Impact of the Civil Rights Movement” Sarah Kreckel: "A Forgotten History: Slavery in New England" Civil Rights films:
2:15 to 3:15: "Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings (1954–1956)"
3:15 to 4:15: "Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back (1957–1962)"
4:15 Priscilla Smith: "Using the Arts in Civil Rights Education" Lillie Gayle Smith: "21 Points to Ponder: Preparing to Teach The Civil Rights Movement" Nan Woodruff: "Teaching Southern History Before the Civil Rights Movement" Civil Rights films:
4:15 to 5:15: "Eyes on the Prize: Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960–1961)"
5:15 to 5:45: "The Children Shall Lead"
5:45 end of first day
 
Thursday, June 28:
10:00 Opening panel: "Reflections on One America" with Angela Oh, Dr. John Hope Franklin, Gov. William Winter, moderated by Michael Wenger
11:00 TBA Margaret Block: "Music of the Civil Rights Movement" Deborah Duncan Owens: "Yes, There is Time to Teach Civil Rights History in Elementary School: Reading Instruction within the Context of Civil Rights History" Civil Rights film:
"Eyes on the Prize: No Easy Walk (1961–1963)"
12:00-1:30 Lunch on your own
1:30 James Loewen: "Lies My Mississippi Teacher Told Me and How to Avoid Them"
2:45 break
3:00 Lecia Brooks & Georgette Norman: "Deconstructing the Montgomery Bus Boycott" Leeann Gunn–Rasmussen & Anita Johns: "Race and Class in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast" James Loewen: "Nitty Gritty Issues in Teaching History Differently"

Civil Rights film: William Waheed-Dickerson: "Rivers of Change: The Legacy of Five Unheralded Women in Montgomery and their Struggle for Justice and Dignity" film and "More Than a Bus Ride" companion curriculum


4:30 Jennifer Stollman Leonard B Fowler: "The Role of Popular Music in the Civil Rights Movement" Peggy Jeanes & Karla Smith: "Mississippi History Now" Civil Rights film:
"Eyes on the Prize: Mississippi: Is This America? (1962–1964)"
6:00 Book-signing at Off-Square Books with:
  • Nancy Bercaw: "Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, And The Politics Of Household In The Delta, 1861-1875"
  • James Campbell: "Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005" and "Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa"
  • Joseph Crespino: "In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution"
  • John Hope Franklin: "Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin," "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans," "In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South," et al.
  • Susan Glisson: "The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement" and "First Freedoms: A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights in America"
  • James Loewen: "Lies My Teacher Told Me," "Lies Across America," and "Sundown Towns"
  • Nan Woodruff: "American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta"
 
Friday, June 29:
9:00 James Campbell: "Facing Forward, Facing Backward: Confronting Legacies of Historical Injustice"
10:30 Joseph Crespino: "How to Teach about Southern Segregationists and Why We Should" Nancy Bercaw: "Tracing Slavery in the Neshoba County Archives" Colleen Worrell: "Legacies Projects: Strategies for Making
Historical Knowledge 'Meaningful'”
Civil Rights film:
"Eyes on the Prize: Bridge to Freedom (1965)"
12:00 end