4:00 P.M. Opening Event, “Greek Organizations and the Civil Rights Movement,” Watkins Auditorium
7:00 P.M. Movie showing, Amazing Grace,
Watkins Auditorium
Tuesday, February 26, Native American Civil Rights Day
Caps of Distinction, UC 206A, B, 11-2
5:00 P.M. Native American Dinner, Cafeteria Room 125
6:30 P.M. Music/ Power Point presentation on Native American Civil Right
7:00 P.M. Speaker: Lynn King Lossiah
8:00 P.M. Books and Art prints signing in the lobby
Wednesday, February 27, Minority Affairs Day
“Honoring Black Writers: A Literary Reading.” 12:00-12:50 p.m. Hortense Parrish Writing Center (H209). Light refreshments will be served.
1:00 P.M. Panel featuring Tennessee Equality Project, Student Life Center
3:00 P.M. Dr. Mark Simmons, “The Music of the Civil Rights Movement.” Humanities 204
6:00 P.M. Harold Conners Civil Rights Dinner,
Student Life Center
Thursday, February 28, Watkins Auditorium
9:30-10:45 – Black Student Struggles of 1968 and 1969
Thulani Davis
11:00-12:15 – Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement
Cynthia Griggs Fleming
Diane Nash
Earlene Moore, moderator
1:00-2:15 – 40 Years Later: Desegregating or Resegregating?
Henry Parker
Gloria Sweet-Love
Ray Stevenson, moderator
7:00 pm – Keynote Address
UTM Collegiate Gospel Choir, Musical Introduction
Keynote Address, “Civil Rights 40 Years After Dr. King’s Death;” Kathleen Cleaver, law professor, Emory and Yale Universities and former member of SNCC and the Black Panthers
Friday, February 29
7:00 pm – “The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till,” Humanities Auditorium
Saturday, March 1
7:30 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. – Civil Rights Field Trip to Memphis National Civil Rights Museum with address by Reverend Samuel Kyles.
