“Righteousness exalts a nation; hate just makes people miserable.” ~ Fannie Lou Hamer
2011 CALENDAR OF EVENTS THE HAMER INSTITUTE JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY
1400 John Roy Lynch Street P.O. Box 17081 Jackson, Mississippi 39212 Phone: 601-979-1562 Fax: 601-979-5926 E-mail: Hamer.Institute@Jsums.edu www.JSUMS.EDU/ Hamer.Institute
September 27, 2011 The Reading Community “They Say”: Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race ( New Narratives in American History) by James West Davidson Java City Café (H.T. Sampson Library) 6:00 p.m. www.jsums.edu/Hamer.Institute October 5-6, 2011 28th Annual Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Symposium Lecture Series “We Are Not Afraid”: Youth Activism and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Jackson State University & Tougaloo College Jackson, Mississippi Hamer.Institute@jsums.edu Cofo.Center@jsums.edu 601-979-1562
HAMER HAPPENINGS
October 20, 2011 Medgar Evers/ Ella Baker Civil Rights Lecture Series Child Poverty in Mississippi and Its Implications Dollye M.E. Robinson Liberal Arts Bldg Jackson State University Jackson, Mississippi 6:30 pm www.jsums.edu/Hamer.Institute 601-979-1563 November 9, 2011 Medgar Evers/ Ella Baker Civil Rights Lecture Series Robert Clark Symposium Election Day Implication and Analysis New Student Center – Theater Room 6:30 p.m. Jackson State University Jackson, Mississippi MWA@jsums.edu Hamer.institute@jsums.edu 601-979-1563 November 10, 2011 The Reading Community Think and Grow Rich by Dennis Kimbro and Napoleon Hill Java City Café (H.T. Sampson Library) 6:00 p.m. www.jsums.edu/Hamer.Institute
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