PorterPor

Porter L. Fortune, Jr.

34rd Annual History Symposium

February 18-20, 2010

The Civil Rights Movement

in Mississippi

This year's event will be a joint event with the
Future of the South Symposium
organized through the
Center for the Study of
Southern Culture.

Scholarly talks and discussion will take place Thursday and Friday, February 18-19, 2010, and an unstructured discussion of the relationship between the history of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of Mississippi will take place on Saturday, February 20.

Particpants in the symposium will include:

Chris Myers Asch, U. S. Public Service Academy
Emilye Crosby, SUNY Geneseo
David Cunningham, Brandeis University
John Dittmer, DePauw University
Jelani Favors, Morgan State University
Francoise Hamlin, Brown University
Wesley Hogan, Virginia State University
Tiyi Morris, Ohio State University
Byroin D'Andra Orey, Jackson State University
Joseph Reiff, Emory and Henry College
Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University
Michael Williams, Mississippi State University

For information on the symposium, contact Ted Ownby at umsymp@olemiss.edu