McComb Legacies:
Reclaiming Our Past for a Brighter Future
A Civil Rights Education Summit
Honoring C.C. Bryant
June 21-23, 2006

The 2nd Annual Educators Summit on Teaching About the Civil Rights Movement (first held in Philadelphia, MS) is open to educators across the country. The summit will offer informative and engaging panel presentations, workshops, and a driving tour of historic local Civil Rights sites in historic McComb, Mississippi, as well as a reception and ceremony in honor of Civil Rights Movement veteran C.C. Bryant and other McComb Movement veterans. In addition to playing a pivotal role in the history of the Civil Rights Movement (brief history), McComb is significantly making the commitment to engage its public school staff in a study of institutionalized racism and the history/legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

Presenters and panelists include:

• Dr. Hank Bounds, Mississippi State Superintendent of Education

• Teachers, students, and community members from McComb, Mississippi

• Hollis Watkins, Southern Echo, SNCC activist from Mississippi

• Dr. John Dittmer, DePauw University, author of Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

• Dr. James Campbell, Brown University, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Brown-Tougaloo Exchange Project

• Jennifer Abraham, Louisiana State University, Assistant Director, T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

• Jennifer Clark, Facing History and Ourselves

• Lecia Brooks, Southern Poverty Law Center, Educational Director

• Rev. David Billings, People s Institute for Survival and Beyond

• Dr. Jenice View, Teaching for Change, co-editor of Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching

• Nan Woodruff, UNESCO's Breaking the Silence: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Project

For the schedule and to pre-register, visit: McComb Legacies or contact the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation at 662-915-6734 or wwirr@olemiss.edu.

Sponsored by the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation. Hosted by the McComb Public Schools and others.

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