2010 Hamer/ NEH Landmarks Week 1

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.

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