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Posted on: June 19th, 2012 by benita

Posted on: June 19th, 2012 by benita

Posted on: June 19th, 2012 by benita

Myrlie Evers-Williams Keynote Speaker at 50 Years of Integration Event

Posted on: March 6th, 2012 by benita

Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of Civil Rights Activist Medgar Evers, opened the University’s “50 Year’s of Integration” events recently by delivering a keynote address at Fulton Chapel. Produced by Mary Stanton.

Evers-Williams Returns to UM Friday for ‘Day of Dialogue’

Posted on: February 29th, 2012 by benita

Myrlie Evers-Williams will speak at the university on March 2 at 4 p.m. in Fulton Chapel. The event is sponsored by the Subcommittee on the Civil Rights Movement, the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

OXFORD, Miss. – Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, returns to the University of Mississippi this weekend (March 2-4) to highlight the Ole Miss Alumni Association’s Black Alumni and Family Reunion.

Evers-Williams will give a lecture at 4 p.m. Friday in Fulton Chapel as part of the university’s “Day of Dialogue,” which commemorates 50 years of integration at Ole Miss.

Charles K. Ross, chair of UM’s civil rights movement subcommittee, said he is extremely pleased to have Evers-Williams back on campus.

“The state of Mississippi owes her a tremendous debt in terms of the sacrifice she and her husband made, forever changing the state,” said Ross, director of the African American studies program and associate professor of African American studies and history. “I encourage everyone to come out and hear this great leader.”

Julian Gilner, assistant director of the Ole Miss Alumni Association and organizer of the Black Alumni and Family Reunion, agreed. “We are honored to have such a distinguished slate of speakers and activities for this Black Alumni Reunion, which falls on such a significant anniversary in Ole Miss history,” he said.

Gilner also serves on the university’s civil rights subcommittee, which has organized “Opening the Closed Society: 50 Years of Integration,” the yearlong celebration of diversity at UM. Various panels, lectures, concerts and other activities mark the celebration, which continues through October.

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2012 Black History Month Concert Celebrating 50 Years of Integration

Posted on: February 23rd, 2012 by benita

2012 Black History Month Concert Celebrating 50 Years of Integration from UM Media Documentary Projects on Vimeo.

Ole Miss African Drum-Dance Ensemble (OMADDE) & Friends: UMISSO, The Mississippians, Carlene Waugh, Fred Dunlap, Jonathan White, Choral Octet, Guelel Kumba.

George Worlasi Kwasi Dor, Director of OMADDE and Coordinator.

Nutt Auditorium, Music Building, University of Mississippi. Thursday, February 23, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

Exhibit Uses Sounds and Sights to Commemorate 50th Anniversary of University’s Integration

Posted on: February 22nd, 2012 by benita No Comments

OXFORD, Miss. – The 50th anniversary of James Meredith’s enrollment as the first black student at the University of Mississippi is still months away, but the event is commemorated in a special exhibit on display at Gallery 130 in Meek Hall through Feb. 29.

“Not Everyone (can carry the weight of the world)” is a sound installation by artists Les Christensen and John Salvest. Created as “a celebration of one man’s courage, determination and perseverance against incredible odds,” the work – like many sound installations – has visual elements that accompany the sound, but the focus is not what you see but what you hear.

The exhibit concludes Feb. 29 with a 2:30 p.m. lecture by both Salvest and Christensen in the gallery, followed by a reception. Both are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays. (more…)

University Commemorates 50 Years of Integration Feb. 23 with Free Concert

Posted on: February 14th, 2012 by benita No Comments

OXFORD, Miss. – It’s as much fun listening to George Dor talk about the upcoming 2012 Black History Month concert as it is hearing him perform, and that’s saying a lot.

On Feb. 23, audiences will have a chance to do both when Dor, associate professor of music at the University of Mississippi, joins several UM student ensembles to present a musical commemoration called “Celebrating 50 Years of Integration.” (more…)

Children’s Defense Fund Founder to Speak Feb. 21 at UM

Posted on: February 7th, 2012 by benita No Comments
Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman

A nationally known advocate for disadvantaged children will speak at the University of Mississippi.

Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, lectures at 7 p.m. Feb. 21 at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for Performing Arts. Free and open to the public, the event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture’s Future of the South Symposium, the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies as part of Women’s History Month, Black History Month and the Opening the Closed Society Initiative.
Under Edelman’s leadership, the CDF has become the nation’s strongest voice for children and families. The Children’s Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind mission is to ensure every child a healthy, fair, safe, moral start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
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Video: Gilder-Jordan Speaker Series, David Blight

Posted on: January 12th, 2012 by benita

View a lecture by David Blight, Yale Historian and author of “American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era.” Blight spoke in Nov. 2011, as part of the Gilder-Jordan Speaker Series in Southern Cultural History.