Civil Rights 40 Years After Dr. King’s Death

UT Martin’s 8th Annual Civil Rights Conference

Monday, February 25

• 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.