Tougaloo College is making plans to celebrate Freedom Summer on Monday, June 21, with morning and afternoon speakers including community people about their experiences and a youth-oriented session, and a reception in the evening. On Tuesday, June 22, there will be speakers in the morning, ending by noon.
9:00 a.m. — 11:30 a.m.
Unsettling Memories: Culture and Trauma in the Deep South Conference
Celebration Worship Services.
Concert: Jackson State University Concert Choir
Tougaloo College Concert Choir
Featuring Guest Soloist, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Singer, composer,
cultural historian, curator and activist
Dr. Reagon is the distinguished professor of History at American University specializing in the history of African American culture, and also holds the position of curator emerita at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. She is best known as a performer with Sweet Honey in the Rock, a singing group she formed in 1973. Dr. Reagon's solo work has been featured in several award-winning documentaries, including "The Songs are Free: Bernice Johnson Reagon with Bill Moyers," a 60-minute production of Public Affairs Television.
Special Guests & Honorees:
Dr. Carolyn Goodman and Mr. David Goodman, Mother and Brother of Slain
Civil Rights Worker Andrew Goodman
Mr. Ben Chaney Brother of Slain Civil Rights Worker James Chaney
A film company out of Los Angeles will film the memorial services for an upcoming documentary.
2:00 p.m.
40th Annual Chaney, Schwerner, Goodman Memorial Service Mt. Zion
Church
1119 Road 747
Philadelphia, Neshoba County, MS
9:00 a.m.
Opening Plenary
Speaker: Ms. Dorie Ladner '73. Social Worker; native of Palmer's
Crossing, MS. Civil rights movement veteran, Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
10:00 a.m.
Remembering the Past — Moving Forward In the
Future — Part I
Reflections from Participants of the Movement
Rev. Ed King
Mr. Sam Bradford '69
Mr. Hezekiah Watkins
Hon. Carol Ruth Silver
11:00 a.m.
Questions/Answers.
2:00 p.m.
Rage Is Not A 1-Day Thing! Youth Celebration
The Untaught History of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Written and
Performed by Native Mississippian Awele Makeba (Interactive performance
and talkback)
Woodworth Chapel
Admission: Free
Awele (ah WAY lay) Makeba, uses documentary theatre to examine the untaught history of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a cornerstone of American mythology. The play is based on oral histories, interviews, court transcripts, memoirs, and biographies. The story is told primarily through the voice of 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus 9 months before Rosa Parks' arrest for the same act. Claudette, who became the star witness in the federal court case that went all the way to the Supreme Court, shares the stage with 12 other characters, including other history makers: 18-year-old Mary Louise Smith, JoAnn Robinson, President of the Women's Political Council and Rosa Parks, NAACP Youth Director and Secretary. These women and their community, a "powerless" people, were propelled by a deep conviction to win an "impossible" victory. They ignited the fuse for the rising forces of democracy, for us and the world.
4:00 p.m.
Freedom Summer Reunion Celebration Reception
Woodworth Chapel Lawn
Entertainment by Inaminute
You must call 977-7730 to RSVP by June 18, 2004
9:00 a.m.
Closing Plenary
Speaker: Mr. Owen Brooks
Civil Rights Veteran, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),
NAACP
10:00 a.m.
Remembering the Past — Moving Forward in the
Future — Part II
Reflections from Participants of the Movement
Attorney Isaac K. Byrd, '73 Moderator
Mr. Rims Barber
Professor Richard Johnson
Dr. Ollye B. Shirley '53
Attorney Constance Slaughter-Harvey '67
11:30 a.m.
Closing Session — A Call for Action
Dr. Leslie B. McLemore, Moderator
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