Mississipppi Freedom Summer 50th has ended

Create Your Own Event

Mississipppi Freedom Summer 50th

arrow_back View All Dates

7:30am CDT

Registration Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center, Room 212 A & B

8:00am CDT

Freedom School Registration and Harmabee Tougaloo College, Amphitheater Media Check-In Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center

9:00am CDT

Freedom Summer 50th Plenary - "Freedom Summer 1964: It's Historic Performance" Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center

11:00am CDT

Youth Congress - State and Regional Meetings Tougaloo College, Youth Congress Tent Freedom Summer Roll Call Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center

12:00pm CDT

Freedom Film Festival Tougaloo College, Bennie G. Thompson Center

12:45pm CDT

Lunch Tougaloo College

1:30pm CDT

Youth Congress Breakout Session - " Systems Designed Against Us: Incarceration and Immigration" Tougaloo College, Youth Congress Tent Youth Congress Breakout Session - "Creating a Campus Grassroots Campaign" Tougaloo College, Ballard Hall 2nd Floor Youth Congress Breakout Session - "Disrupting the School to Prison Pipeline" Tougaloo College, Galloway Rm. 9 Youth Congress Breakout Session - "Inter-generational Healing: Triumph or Trauma" Tougaloo College, Library - Roach Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Youth Congress Breakout Session - "Understanding Identity, Privilege and Power" Togaloo College, Library - Townsend Room, 3rd Floor

2:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education - " Structure Opportunities for Educational Access for the Bottom Quartile of the Economic Distribution: A Conversation" Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall, Bennie G. Thompson 109,110

2:30pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Health - " Child Obesity: Health Disparities Among African American Children" Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Voting Rights - "Voting as a Constitutional Right" Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Workers' Rights - "Union Organizing/ Community Organizing" Tougaloo College, Library 1st Floor

3:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Environmental and Climate Justice - The People's Movement Assembly "Climate Change and Environmental Injustice: How Did We Get Here?" TBD Youth Congress Breakout Session - "The People's Movement Assemblies" Tougaloo College

3:30pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education - "Education as a Constitutional Right" and "Fully Funding Public Education/MS Ballot Initiative" Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall, Bennie Thompson Center 109,110

4:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Health - "Dreams Deferred: Chronic Disease and Life Expectancy Rates Among African Americans" Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Voting Rights - "Building Political Coalitions" Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Workers' Rights - "Building Alliances with the Civil Rights Immigrant Rights Movement" Tougaloo College, Library 1st Floor

5:00pm CDT

Youth Congress Breakout Session - "The People's Movement Assemblies" Tougaloo College COFO/ Lynch Street Takeover COFO

5:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education - "Education as a Constitutional Right" Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall, Bennie G. Thompson 109,110

6:00pm CDT

"This Little Light of Ours": Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement Mississippi Museum of Art

8:00pm CDT

Soundtrack of 1964 Concert Mississippi Museum of Art

8:30pm CDT

Freedom Summer Film Screening (at Jackson Convention Complex) Jackson Convention Complex