Commemorative
Civil Rights Commission Honorary Commissioners Beverly Wade Hogan
Reuben V. Anderson, Esq.
James E. Clyburn
Morris S. Dees, Jr., Esq.
President Tougaloo College
Assist. Democratic Leader U.S. House of Representatives
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. Senior Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, L.L.P.
Haley Barbour
Senior Partner Phelps Dunbar, L.L.P.
Former Governor of Mississippi Founding Partner BGR Group
H. Jack Geiger, M.D.
Founder, Chief Trial Attorney Southern Poverty Law Center
Founding Member, Physician for Human Rights and the Arthur C. Logan Professor Emeritus City College of New York
John Lewis
U.S. House of Representatives District 5, Georgia
Robert P. “Bob” Moses, Ph.D. Founder & President The Algebra Project
Christina Hull Paxson, Ph.D. Cleveland L. Sellers, Jr., Ph.D. President Brown University
President Voorhees College
LeRoy G. Walker, Jr.
William Winter, Esq.
Chairman Tougaloo College Board of Trustees
Former Governor of Mississippi Senior Counsel Jones Walker, L.L.P.
Bennie G. Thompson U.S. House of Representative District 2, Mississippi
Marian Wright Edelman, J.D. President Children’s Defense Fund
Sustaining Commissioners David J. Dennis, Sr.
Former Assistant Director, COFO Former Mississippi Director, CORE
Haley R. Fisackerly
President & CEO Entergy Mississippi, Incorporated
Constance SlaughterHarvey, Esq. Flonzie Goodloe Wright
Howard Dodson, Jr.
David C. Driskell, M.F.A.
Derrick Johnson, J.D.
Robert T. King, J.D.
Director, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and Howard University Libraries President Mississippi State Conference NAACP
Henry “Hank” Thomas Freedom Rider
Author & Civil Rights Veteran
Professor Emeritus The Davis C. Driskell Ctr. University of Maryland
President The International Union United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America(UAW)
Hollis Watkins Found & President Southern Echo
The commemorative events have a threefold purpose: (1) to honor the courageous and extraordinary contributions made toward the advancement of justice and equality for all; (2) to examine new ways in which this history can inform present day social justice issues; and (3) to promote Tougaloo’s assets of academic excellence and social responsibility, including its Civil Rights History.
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