JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY CORE FACULTY • Dr. Leslie Burl McLemore, Director, Political Scientist (Emeritus) at Jackson State University and Veteran of the Civil Rights Movement •
Dr. Michelle D. Deardorff, Political Scientist at Jackson State University
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Dr. Jeff Kolnick, Historian, Southwest Minnesota State University
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Dr. Daphne Chamberlain, Research Fellow
STAFF • Latosha A. Garrett, Administrative Assistant/ Program Coordinator •
Keith Lamont Mcmillian, Project Coordinator
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Ja’Lisa Jordan and Michael Morris, Graduate Research Assistants
HAMER HAPPENINGS F ALL 2011
2012 H AMER H UMANITARIAN A WARD L UNCHEON
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Inside this issue: Directors Note
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History of the Institute
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Medgar Evers/ Ella Baker Lecture Series
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2011 Humanitarian Awards Luncheon
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MS Freedom 50th Freedom Riders Reunion
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Pivotal Role of Young People
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2011 Teaching American History
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From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike
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The Hamer Institute Faculty and Staff
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COFO Civil Rights Education Center
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LOCATION: Jackson State University New Student Center Ballroom A
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The Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy at Jackson State University extends an invitation for you to become a participant in the Fannie Lou Hamer Humanitarian Awards Luncheon, to be held on Friday, April 20, 2012, 11:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M. in the New Student Center, Ballroom A located on the campus of Jackson State University. The Purpose of this Award Luncheon is to honor individuals and organizations that have made major contributions to the areas of service and leadership in the pursuit of social, economic, political, and environmental justice and equality within the state of Mississippi and abroad.
2012 HAMER HUMANITARIAN AWARD RECIPIENTS John Garner Civil Rights Veteran, Retired Physics Professor Tougaloo College, Jackson, Mississippi
Susan Glisson Executive Director, William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, Oxford, Mississippi
Hickman Johnson Senior Pastor, Farish Street Baptist Church, Jackson, Mississippi
Flonzie Brown-Wright
President FBW & Associates, Inc., Author, Civil Rights Trailblazer, Jackson, MS