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UTM 10th Annual Civil Rights Conference
“Civil Rights in the Age of Obama”

Entire month of February: weekly book discussion meetings on the Civil Rights Conference 2010 book, Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement: An Anthology, Margaret Early Whitt, editor

Saturday, February 20

Ken-Tenn Homecoming and Reunion Association and Community Forum: African American History Month Activities, Tennessee Room, McCombs Holland, 10am-5pm

For more info: kthracf@gmail.com

Sunday, February 21
Ken-Tenn Homecoming and Reunion Association and Community Forum: African American History Month Activities, Harvey Vick Center, South Fulton, TN, 3-5pm

For more info: kthracf@gmail.com

Civil Rights Movie: Amistad, Steven Spielberg's classic account of an 1839 slave-ship rebellion.  Watkins Auditorium 6 and 9pm.  Sponsered by the UTM Student Activities Council.

Monday, February 22

  • 12 pm, Student Rally for Social Justice, Boling University Center and Paul Meek Library plaza
  • 7pm, Black History Quiz Bowl, Sponsored by the National Association of Black Journalists

Tuesday, February 23

  • 1-3pm.  "How the Lives of History Have Tarnished Our Moral Values,” Watkins Auditorium, Dr. Henry Parker, Karen Adams and Student Participants
  • Native American Civil Rights Day, Bill Miller, Watkins Auditorium, 6:30 pm. (Bill Miller, Three-time Grammy Award winning musician. For more info, see: http://www.billmiller.net/)

Wednesday, February 24

  • 12:15-12:50pm, Roundtable on Black Writers, Hortense Parrish Writing Center, 209 Humanities Bldg., Sponsored by Hortense Parrish Writing Center. Contact owl@utm.edu for more information.
  • 1-3pm, Brooke Haycock, one woman performance on contemporary issues of education and civil rights,Watkins Auditorium

 

Thursday, February 25: All events in Watkins Auditorium

• 9:30-10:45: “Civil Rights in the Age of Obama,” Dr. Cynthia Griggs Fleming, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• 11-12:15: “White Privilege and White Activism in the Struggle for Black Freedom,” Chude Allen and Karen Trusty

• 1-2:15: “Racial Disparities in Health Care,” Dr. Vivian Carter, Tuskegee University

• 2:30-3:45: “Local Civil Rights History: Fulton, and South Fulton,” Joyce Washington, T.D. Morris, and Pete Algee

• 7pm: Keynote Address

Friday, February 26

Documentary Film Showing: UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
Watkins Auditorium, 7pm

 

Conference Coordinator

David Barber, dbarber@utm.edu

Past Conference Coordinator

Alice-Catherine Carls, accarls@utm.edu

 

Check out our UTM Civil Rights Conference Facebook Page

For Copy of Civil Rights Conference poster, click here.

For Copy of Civil Rights Conference flyer, click here.