EVENT: Conference--Civil Rights in the Age of Obama

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The University of Tennessee at Martin is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA employer and complies with UT System Policy No. HR0220. E05-4033-00-006-10 

 

The Month of February: Weekly book discussions about the Civil Rights Conference 2010 book, Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement: An Anthology, 

Margaret Early Whitt, editor. 

 

Saturday  February 20 

10:00 am–5:00 pm Ken-Tenn Homecoming and Reunion Association and 

Community Forum, African American History Month  

Celebration, Tennessee Room, Holland McCombs  

Building. kthracf@gmail.com 

 

Sunday   February 21 

3:00–5:00 pm Ken-Tenn Homecoming and Reunion Association and 

Community Forum, African American History Month 

Celebration, Harvey Vick Center, South Fulton, Tenn. 

6:00 pm & 9:00 pm Civil Rights Movie Showing: Amistad, Steven Spielberg’s 

account of a slave ship rebellion. Sponsored by UT Martin 

Student Activities Council. 

 

Monday  February 22 

12:00 pm Student Rally for Social Justice 

 Boling University Center and Paul Meek Library plaza 

7:00 pm Black History Quiz Bowl, Sponsored by the National 

Association of Black Journalists 

 

Tuesday Native American Civil Rights Day   February 23 

1:00–3:00 pm How the Lies of History Have Tarnished Our Moral Values.  

A lecture and discussion with Dr. Henry Parker and UT 

Martin student, Karen Adams 

5:50 pm Bill Miller, Grammy Award-winning musician 

All events will be held in Watkins Auditorium unless otherwise noted. 

Please Join our University of Tennessee at Martin Civil Rights Conference Facebook Group or email dbarber@utm.edu

 

Wednesday  February 24 

12:15-12:50 pm Roundtable on Black Writers, Hortense Parrish Writing 

Center, 209 Humanities Bldg.  Sponsored by Hortense 

Parrish Writing Center. Contact owl@utm.edu for more 

information. 

1:00–3:00 pm Brooke Haycock 

 One-woman performance on contemporary issues in 

education and civil rights 

 

Thursday  February 25 

 9:30–10:45 am Civil Rights in the Age of Obama 

 Dr. Cynthia Griggs Fleming,  

University of Tennessee, Knoxville 

11:00 am – White Privilege and White Activism in the Struggle 

for Black Freedom 

 Chude Allen and Karen Trusty 

1:00–2:15 pm Racial Disparities in Health Care 

 Dr. Vivian Carter, Tuskegee University 

2:30–3:45 pm Local Civil Rights History: Fulton and South Fulton 

 Joyce Washington, T.D. Morris and Pete Algee 

7:00 pm Dr. Bob Moses, Keynote Speaker 

 UT Martin Collegiate Gospel Choir 

 Introduction of speaker by Cynthia Griggs Fleming 

 

Friday    February 26 

7:00 pm Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? 

Documentary Movie 

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