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Book reading and signing at the historic B. B. King Museum in Indianola, Mississippi, 18 September 2012, 2pm to 4pm. More information available at: http://www.bbkingmuseum.org/.

Book reading and signing at “History is Lunch,” Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi, 19 September 2012. More information available at: http://mdah.state.ms.us/senseofplace/category/events/hil-events/

Book reading and signing at Lemuria Books in Jackson, Mississippi, 19 September 2012. More information available at: http://www.lemuriabooks.com/index.php?show=book&isbn=WFES807835494

“The Trauma of Activism,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Puerto Rico, November 2012





Staff meeting of COFO volunteers in the front room of Clarksdale's Freedom House which also served as the library (1964)

Credit: Taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, Hazelton Freedom Summer Collection, McCain Library and Archives, The University of Southern Mississippi

Selected and Most Recent Past Events


Book reading and signing at Clarksdale's Carnegie Public Library, Clarksdale, Mississippi. 19 June 2012, 5:30pm.  http://www2.youseemore.com/carnegie/default.asp
Crossroads at Clarksdale and the author is featured in the Clarksdale Press Register!  http://www.pressregister.com/news/local/article_16951a20-b4aa-11e1-8137-0019bb2963f4.html 

“Rethinking the Civil Rights Movement,” lecture and seminar for the eighth annual Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute, New York Public Library, New York, 13 June 2012.

“Southern Civil Rights from the Grassroots: Women, Young People, and Community Activists,” for Making Equality: Individuals, Social Movements, and the Law Seminars, run by Primary Source, Watertown, MA, March 2012.

“A Mixed Blessing: Churches, the Mass Civil Rights Movement, and the Rural South,” Inaugural Lecture for the Gammon Theological Seminary, Center for the Study of Religion and Race, Atlanta, Georgia, February 2012.

“Clarksdale, Miss.: The Long View,” for the War on Poverty: Reflections on Poverty Policy Past and Present symposium, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, October 2011.

“Rethinking the Civil Rights Movement,”lecture and seminar for the seventh annual Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute, New York Public Library, June 2011.

Co-organizer for roundtable, “Safety in the Modern Plantation: Women’s Agency and Workers’ Conditions in the Mississippi Delta,” Labor and Working-Class History Association, 100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, March 2011.

““I have not ended the story for there is no end”: Local Civil Rights Movements,” Keynote for Black History Month, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, February 2011.

““Ours is a hell of a story”: Civil Rights At The Crossroads,” James A. Hutchins Lecture Series at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Center for the Study of the American South, February 2011.

“Southern Civil Rights from the Grassroots: Women, Young People, and Community Activists,” Making Equality: Individuals, Social Movements, and the Law Seminars, Primary Source, Reading Memorial High School, Reading, MA, July 2010.

“Coming of Age in the Movement: Children, Activism, Trauma, and Memory.” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Washington, DC., April 2010.

“Local Activism, Local Agency: Engaging Flexible Loyalties,” Porter Fortune, Jr. History Symposium/Future of the South Symposium, University of Mississippi, February 2010.

“Is There A Civil Rights Movement?” Martin Luther King Day Address, Swearer Center for Public Service, Brown University, January 2010.

“Gender, the War on Poverty and Activism for Change,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, October 2009.

“Mothering the Movement: Women’s Roles in Civil Rights Organizing,” Civil Rights Movement in Twentieth Century America Seminars, Primary Source, Hudson High School, MA, July 2009.

“African American Women and Jim Crow,” Pushing for Progress in the Time of Jim Crow Seminars, Primary Source, Simmons College, Boston, MA, July 2008.

“Social Justice, Women, and the Civil Rights,” American Identities Seminars, Primary Source, Boston University, July 2007.

“Waging War on Poverty with Double-Edged Swords,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, March 2007.

“Calculating Success: The Civil Rights Movement in Clarksdale, Mississippi,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, October 2006.

“Calculating Success: The Civil Rights Movement in Clarksdale, Mississippi,” Black History Month Brownbag works-in-progress Presentation, University of Massachusetts, February 2006.

“Shifting The Focus?: The War on Poverty and The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY, October 2005.

“Continuing Histories of the Civil Rights Movement: A Mother in Mississippi,” University of Massachusetts-Boston; SUNY-Stony Brook; University of Maryland; The Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, Jan/Feb 2005.

“Mothering the Movement,” American University, Washington, D.C., April 2004.

“Peculiar Institution,” University of Memphis, Tennessee, Feb 2004.

“Conceptualizing the Civil Rights Movement in Coahoma County, Mississippi,” History Department, University of Mississippi, Feb 2003.

“ ’The Book Hasn’t Closed, The Story Isn’t Finished’: Continuing Histories of the Civil Rights Movement,” British Association of American Studies Annual Meeting, Oxford, U.K., April 2002.

“The (In)visible Woman: Vera Pigee and the Civil Rights Movement in Coahoma County, Mississippi,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Jan 2002.

“Oral History: Clarksdale, Mississippi and the Civil Rights Era,” Mississippi State University Women’s Studies Program Conference, “We Are The Stories We Tell: Women’s Contributions To Culture, Wisdom And Oral Traditions” Starksville, MS, May 2000.