Freedom Summer 2014 Conference

01/28/2018

So many came out to honor Mrs. Connor, including Doug Smith. So glad to have met him!...featured in so many Herbert Randall photos of Freedom Summer

01/28/2018

Mrs. Peggy Jean Connor, rest easy.

04/28/2015

The Center for Black Studies at The University of Southern Mississippi will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 with a community dialogue and panel featuring local civil rights’ activists and scholars at the African American Military History Museum on May…

11/11/2014

Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom include posthumous recognition for James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman.

11/03/2014

Mrs. Daisy Harris Wade, Freedom Summer activist in Hattiesburg, MS

07/09/2014

Over a 10-week period, 1964's Freedom Summer brought together nearly 700 student volunteers, local residents and other civil rights activists to work to ensure t...

06/24/2014

The new film on Freedom Summer premieres nationally on PBS tonight (check your local listing). Most of those who appear on film are from Hattiesburg and/or were at our conference at USM last week!

06/23/2014

Highlights: Memorial Panel for Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner; Keynote address by Crosby, and Freedom Summer Trail tour

06/23/2014

Highlights: Opening Remarks (with Mayor Dupree) and keynote address by Charlie Cobb

06/23/2014

The Center for Black Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi hosted a commemorative conference for the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer (June 19-21, 2014). Our theme, "Local People, Moving Forward," was most appropriate to draw due attention to the important role local citizens, esp. in Hattiesburg, played throughout the civil rights movement but especially during the summer of 1964.

06/13/2014

As part of the upcoming "Freedom Summer 1964-2014 Conference," noted civil rights historian Dr. Emilye Crosby will deliver her keynote, "Local People: Revising the Master Narrative of the Freedom Movement," on Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 1pm in the Thad Cochran Center (Grand Ballroom, 3rd floor). Crosby's lecture is sponsored by a grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council and, therefore, it is free and open to the public.

Dr. Crosby will focus on what we can learn from local studies and how the civil rights movement looks different from that perspective. For example, she will discuss the Port Gibson/Claiborne County movement, the role of women, particularly in SNCC, and the movement in Hattiesburg.

Dr. Emily Crosby is a professor of history at the State University of New York (Geneseo). Her specialization is in African-American history and the civil rights movement (especially local histories). Her publications include 'A Little Taste of Freedom': The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi (2005), and she is the editor of Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement (2011).

For more information about Crosby:

http://www.geneseo.edu/history/emilye-crosby

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Emilye Crosby with Shanna Reulbach, Alexis Everson, Brian Hartle, and Ryne Kitrow, all class of 2010, at SNCC 50th Aninversary Conference, Raleigh, NC.