Civil Rights and Black Power Legacies
2009
On the 2nd annual Mississippi Freedom research trip to the Delta region of Mississippi, also heartland of the Civil Rights Movement, student researchers of the University of Florida on this trip assisted in the production of this roundtable discussion on African American activism featuring leaders in the field.
THURSDAY EVENING: 7:00 pm. August 20, 2009. Civil Rights and Black Power legacies roundtable at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, featuring noted scholars Hasan Kwame Jeffries (Ohio State University); Curtis Austin, (University of Southern Mississippi); Emilye Crosby (SUNYGeneseo ), Margaret Block, and an essay written by Dr. Zoharah Simmons of the University of Florida and read by Khambria Clarke, undergraduate of the University of Florida. Introductions by Arlene Sanders and moderator Dr. Paul Ortiz of the University of Florida.
We will seminar with some of the top civil rights movement scholars and activists in the United States at the historically black college, Delta State University. This will be a powerful event and we wiII have a chance to talk with great scholars as well as contemporary students and activists in attendance.