The Delta State University Quality Enhancement Plan, and the DSU Diversity Committee invites the public to a special panel and book signing Sept. 8\u00a0at\u00a06:30 p.m. in the Charles W. Capps, Jr. Archives and Museum Building. The event is titled\u00a0\u201cIn Remembrance of Margaret Block, Civil Rights Movement Organizer: Voting Rights, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the week of Sept. 6-11, the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP) at the University of Florida, returns to the Mississippi Delta to conduct oral history research on the civil rights movement in Mississippi and the American South. A highlight of this year\u2019s trip will be the\u00a0public panel. The event is co-sponsored by Delta State University and the University of Florida.<\/p>\n
The panel will focus on “Voting Rights, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,\u201d and the event will honor the memory of Margaret Block, an organizer of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Bolivar County in the 1960s. Block was a life-long human rights activist.<\/p>\n
The panel will begin with the world premier screening of a new documentary titled \u201cCelebrating the Life of Margaret Block, Civil Rights Activist.\u201d The first 50 audience members and educators who attend the event\u00a0will receive a free copy of the Margaret Block Remembrance DVD, as well as a booklet copy of SPOHP\u2019s award-winning \u201cI Will Never Forget: Memories from Mississippi Freedom Summer,\u201d which contains first-hand accounts from SNCC veterans on the Freedom Movement in the 1960s.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s panel will feature Mississippi State University\u2019s Jason Ward, who will discuss his new book, \u201cHanging Bridge: Racial Violence, and America\u2019s Civil Right Century.\u201d The book was recently published by Oxford University Press.\u00a0Ward will be signing copies of his book after the discussion.<\/p>\n
Delta State instructor of\u00a0political science, Arlene Story Sanders, will discuss voting restrictions in Mississippi. Sanders is chair of the DSU Diversity Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n
Rounding out the panel will be Paul Ortiz, author of the award-winning books “Emancipation Betrayed”\u00a0and\u00a0“Remembering Jim Crow.” Ortiz\u00a0will speak about voting rights and democracy in the United States.<\/p>\n
Since 2008, SPOHP has worked under the guidance of a number of organizations during this annual civil rights history field work trip. These include the Sunflower County Civil Rights Organization, the Sam Block Civil Rights Organization, the Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture, Veterans for Peace, United Food & Commercial Workers, as well as the Equal Justice Initiative and the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. Each of the interviews collected during the history of the project are publicly accessible to all at the University of Florida\u2019s Mississippi Delta Freedom Project Digital Collection, which can be accessed at\u00a0http:\/\/ufdc.ufl.edu\/freedom<\/a><\/p>\n Panel co-sponsors include: the Delta State University Quality Enhancement Plan, the DSU Diversity Committee, the University of Florida Office Of Research, the Robert and Gay Zieger Social Justice Scholarship Fund, William De Grove and Mark Proctor.<\/p>\n For more information about the panel, contact Sanders at asanders@deltastate.edu<\/a> or Ortiz at portiz@ufl.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Delta State University Quality Enhancement Plan, and the DSU Diversity Committee invites the public to a special panel and book signing Sept. 8\u00a0at\u00a06:30 p.m. in the Charles W. Capps,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":71817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,418,246],"tags":[404,1620],"class_list":["post-71790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-of-arts-and-sciences","category-community-3","category-students","tag-civil-rights","tag-samuel-proctor-oral-history-program"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71790"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71816,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71790\/revisions\/71816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}