Upcoming & Current Programs

Landmarks of American Democracy: From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike

June 15 - 21, 2008 (Group 1); June 22 - 28, 2008 (Group 2)

This one-week workshop, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Hamer Institute, will be offered for community college faculty on the dates noted above. The workshop features extensive readings on the southern civil rights movement in the 1960s. Guest speakers, Hamer Institute faculty, and oral history panelists will guide participants in exploring the people, places, and events that helped bring about civil rights reform. The workshop also includes field trips to landmarks in Jackson, Mississippi; the Mississippi Delta communities of Greenwood, Ruleville, and Clarksdale; and historical sites and the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.

The following documents are available for download:
1. 2008 Landmarks of American Democracy Tentative Syllabus (PDF, 638 kb)
2. Background Information and Application Guidelines (PDF, 57 kb)

The Medgar Evers/Ella Baker Civil Rights Lecture Series

September 2007 - April 2008

This lecture series is jointly sponsored by The Hamer Institute and Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. Each month's program will focus on a different aspect of the Civil Rights Movement. The lecture series will include speakers and veterans such as Bob Moses, L.C. Dorsey, Charles McLaurin, Hollis Watkins, Unita Blackwell, Rev. Ed King, Julian Bond, Marian Wright Edelman, and John Dittmer among many others.

The following document is available for download:
1. 2007-2008 Lecture Series Overview (PDF, 19 kb)