A YEAR OF CELEBRATION
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM'S
35TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 12 & 13, 2006
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AFRICAN
AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
CELEBRATE ITS
35TH ANNIVERSARY WITH THE
"TELLING OUR STORIES"
CONFERENCE
October 12, 2006
Session I. South Carolina Civil Rights Movement: Local People Telling Their Stories
Session II. Voices of the Civil Rights Movement - Teaching the 1960's Freedom Struggle
October 13th
Session III. The Southern Student Movement "Bigger Than A Hamburger"
Awards Luncheon Guest Speaker: Julian Bond, University of Virginia, Board Chair of NAACP, President Emeritus Southern Poverty Law Center
Session IV. The Intellectual Current: Identity, History, Culture — "Organizing Community: Where Do We Go From Here"
Session I
Ms. Victoria Delee |
Session II
Dr. Todd Shaw |
Session III
Chuck McDew |
Luncheon Speaker
Dr. Julian Bonds |
Session IV
Gale Lyons & Bakari Sellers |
Conference Participants
Dr. Gloria Blackwell: Ph.D.,American Studies, Emory University; Plaintiff in the Lawsuit that integrated Orangeburg Hospital.
Professor, Julian Bond: Chairperson NAACP; SNCC Public Relations Director; Aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Elected to both Houses of the Georgia Legislature; Professor of History University of Virginia.
Charlie Cobb: Mississippi Field Secretary, Author of Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights.
Dr. Millicent Brown: PhD, History, Florida State Univ. Plaintiff in Brown v. Charleston School District 20, the first case to successfully desegregate a public school in South Carolina.
Esquire Connie Curry: Writer, activist, lawyer and Fellow of Institute for Women's Studies, Emory University, Atlanta; Executive committee of SNCC.
Ms. Victoria Delee: Native South Carolinian in the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement in Dorchester County, South Carolina; the first Black female to run for Congress in South Carolina.
Gale Lyons: USC African American Studies student.
Mr. Chuck McDew: Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis, Minnesota since 1981; participated in the founding of SNCC and was chairman for three years.
Esquire Fred Moore: Student protest leader at South Carolina State University, expelled for his activities; practicing attorney in Charleston, South Carolina.
Ms. Mary Moultrie: Native of John's Island, South Carolina; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN); led the Charleston Hospital workers strike in 1969.
Ms. Judy Richardson: Co-producer of the films Eyes on the Prize and Malcolm X: Make it Plain; staff member SNCC early 1960's.
Mr. William Sanders: Civil Rights leader in the South Carolina Lowcountry.
Bakari Sellers: South Carolina General Assembly Representative for the 90th District
Mr. Cecil Williams: Photographer during the Civil Rights Movement; author of Freedom & Justice: Four Decades of The Civl Rights Struggle As Seen By a Black Photographer of the Deep South.
Dr. Dorris (DeDe) Wright: Youth NAACP Leader- Greenville, South Carolina Sit-In Protest
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