2008 Woodie Awards
Civil Rights Conference to feature NAACP chairman, speakers, play
Rachel Rogers
Issue date: 2/6/07 Section: Campus News
For the seventh year in a row, UTM will spend a week celebrating the Civil Rights movement.
This year's conference, entitled "The Legacy of a Decade of Civil Rights Acts and Actions, 1957-1968", will kick off on Monday, Feb. 26. Professor of History and Philosophy, Dr. Alice-Catherine Carls, has chaired the committee for all seven years.
"The conference has grown over the years," Carls says. "We used to only have one main day of events. This year, we have an entire week's worth of activities."
As in year's past, Thursday will be the main day of the conference. On that day, Dr. Julian Bond, who is the main speaker for this year's event, will present his speech.
Bond is currently the chairman of the NAACP, and was active in the Civil Rights Movement. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center's Web site, "as an activist who has faced jail for his convictions, as a veteran of more than 20 years of service in the Georgia General Assembly, as a writer, teacher and lecturer, Julian Bond has been on the cutting edge of social change since he was a college student leading sit-in demonstrations in Atlanta in 1960."
Bond served as the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and has also narrated two videos for the Center: on which won an Academy Award, and the other was nominated for an Oscar. His speech in entitled "The Civil Rights Movement: Past, Present and Future."
"His speech fits perfect with this year's theme," says Carls. "We used to focus only on the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Right now, the NAACP is doing many things to move forward, such as devising new ways of upholding Civil Rights."
The Civil Rights Conference will focus primarily on Native American and African-American communities. Tom Kunesh, a Hunkpapa Lakota, will be presenting a speech entitled "Reconstruction in a Time of Atheism: the Past, Present and Future of Tennessee Indian Affairs" on Tuesday night. J.J. Kent and the Tanasi Thunder Singers will also perform that night.
This year's conference, entitled "The Legacy of a Decade of Civil Rights Acts and Actions, 1957-1968", will kick off on Monday, Feb. 26. Professor of History and Philosophy, Dr. Alice-Catherine Carls, has chaired the committee for all seven years.
"The conference has grown over the years," Carls says. "We used to only have one main day of events. This year, we have an entire week's worth of activities."
As in year's past, Thursday will be the main day of the conference. On that day, Dr. Julian Bond, who is the main speaker for this year's event, will present his speech.
Bond is currently the chairman of the NAACP, and was active in the Civil Rights Movement. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center's Web site, "as an activist who has faced jail for his convictions, as a veteran of more than 20 years of service in the Georgia General Assembly, as a writer, teacher and lecturer, Julian Bond has been on the cutting edge of social change since he was a college student leading sit-in demonstrations in Atlanta in 1960."
Bond served as the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and has also narrated two videos for the Center: on which won an Academy Award, and the other was nominated for an Oscar. His speech in entitled "The Civil Rights Movement: Past, Present and Future."
"His speech fits perfect with this year's theme," says Carls. "We used to focus only on the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Right now, the NAACP is doing many things to move forward, such as devising new ways of upholding Civil Rights."
The Civil Rights Conference will focus primarily on Native American and African-American communities. Tom Kunesh, a Hunkpapa Lakota, will be presenting a speech entitled "Reconstruction in a Time of Atheism: the Past, Present and Future of Tennessee Indian Affairs" on Tuesday night. J.J. Kent and the Tanasi Thunder Singers will also perform that night.
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