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Monday
, June 23
Jackson State University, Dixon Hall Lobby
11:00am •
Registration
Smith Robertson Cultural Musuem
6:00pm •
Youth Congress Freedom Summer Block Party
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall
3:45pm •
Action Steps Presented by Education Working Groups
Tuesday
, June 24
Jackson Hilton
8:00am •
Pre-Registration Packet Pick-Up
Togaloo College, Library - Townsend Room, 3rd Floor
10:00am •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 1 - "Pass the Memo: The Legislative Process in Mississippi"
Tougaloo College
4:15pm •
Youth Congress: State and Regional Meetings
Tougaloo College, Ballard Hall 2nd Floor
11:45am •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 2 - "Breaking Down the Prison Industry"
2:30pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 3 - "Freedom Summer: Stories and Strategies/Telling Your Story in Community Organizing"
Tougaloo College, Bennie G. Thompson Center
6:00pm •
Conference Welcoming Reception
Tougaloo College, Bennie Thompson Center 209
11:45am •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 2 - "Not in Our State: Don't Be Silent, Stop the Violence"
Tougaloo College, Bennie Thompson Center Courtyard
7:30pm •
Old School/ New School Mash-Up
Tougaloo College, Bennie Thompson Center Room 209
10:00am •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 1 - "The Brown-Tougaloo Partnership"
Tougaloo College, Berkshire Hall 107
2:30pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 3 - "Think Critically, Act Creatively: Utilizing New Media Tools for Youth Empowerment and Movement Making"
Tougaloo College, Berkshire Hall 202
2:30pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 3 - "Key to Organizing Diverse Communities: Power, Purpose and Public Narrative in Movement Building"
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall
10:00am •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 1 - "#NoJustNoPeace"
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall
11:45am •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 2 - "What Makes You Mad? How to Connect Issues and Impact to Civic Engagement"
2:30pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 3 - "Education Funding in Mississippi"
Tougaloo College, Library - Roach Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
2:30pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 3 - "National Student Bill of Rights"
Tougaloo College, Library 1st Floor
10:00am •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 1 - "Political Track Session 1"
2:30pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 3 - "Political Track Session 3"
Tougaloo College, Library 1st Floor
11:45am •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 2 - "Political Track Session 2"
Tougaloo College, Lunch Tents
1:15pm •
Lunch
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center
8:00am •
Media Check-In
10:00am •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 1 - "We Can't Survive on $7.25: The Fight for a Fairer Wage"
2:30pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 3 - "Mississippi Goddam: Still Building a New World Together in the South"
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center
11:45am •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 2 - "Federal Intervention on and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline"
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center Gym
8:30am •
Opening Youth Plenary
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center, Room 212 A & B
7:30am •
Registration
Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel
10:00am •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 1 - "Better Schools Better Jobs: Ballot Initiative"
Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel
11:45am •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 2 - "Youth Taking Control of Elections"
Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel
2:30pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 3 - "Know Your Constitutional Rights in School"
Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel Basement Conference Room
10:00am •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 1 - "Building Grassroots Power for Media Justice to Transform Structural Racism"
Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel Basement Conference Room
2:30pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 3 - "Youth Organizing and School-to-Prison Pipeline"
Tougaloo College, Youth Congress Tent
10:00am •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 1 - "Messaging for Power"
Tougaloo College, Youth Congress Tent
11:45am •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 2 - "Voter ID in the 'Sip/My Vote, My V.O.I.C.E."
Tougaloo County, Ballard 2nd Floor Theater
10:00am •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 1 - " To Be Young Gifted and Black Queer Feminist: Queering the Agenda"
Wednesday
, June 25
Togaloo College, Library - Townsend Room, 3rd Floor
1:00pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 1 - "Political Track 4"
2:45pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 2 - "Political Track 5"
4:30pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 3 - "Political Track 6"
Tougaloo College
8:00am •
Youth Congress: Buses Depart for Children's Defense Fund Freedom Tour
12:15pm •
Lunch
Tougaloo College, Bennie G. Thompson Center
12:00pm •
Freedom Film Festival
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall
2:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education - " The Crisis: How Does Public Education Survive and Thrive?"
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall, Bennie G. Thompson 109,110
5:00pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education Breakout Working Groups
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall, Bennie Thompson Center 109,110
4:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education - "The Role of Higher Education in the Struggle"
Tougaloo College, Library 1st Floor
2:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Workers' Rights - "Organizing in the South"
4:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Workers' Rights - "Youth as Labor Organizers"
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center
8:00am •
Media Check-In
9:00am •
Freedom Summer 50th Opening Plenary - "The Freedom Struggle in Mississippi, 1944-2014"
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center
2:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Voting Rights - "Our Southern Strategy: Taking the Leadership
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center
4:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Voting Rights - " One Person, One Vote"
8:00pm •
"Freedom Summer" Film Screening (on Tougaloo's Campus)
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center, Room 212 A & B
7:30am •
Registration
Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel
2:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Health - "Mississippi 1964 Health Workers on the Front Line: A Proud Legacy Continues"
4:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Health - "Increasing Minority Participation in the Affordable Care Act
Tougaloo College, Youth Congress Tent
1:00pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 1 - "I Got My People With Me: New Approaches to Labor"
2:45pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 2 - "Jews and Freedom Summer"
4:30pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Sessions: Block 3 - "Understanding the Plight of DREAMers: Mississippi Immigrants' Rights Alliance"
Thursday
, June 26
COFO
5:00pm •
COFO/ Lynch Street Takeover
Jackson Convention Complex
8:30pm •
Freedom Summer Film Screening (at Jackson Convention Complex)
Mississippi Museum of Art
6:00pm •
"This Little Light of Ours": Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement
8:00pm •
Soundtrack of 1964 Concert
TBD
3:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Environmental and Climate Justice - The People's Movement Assembly "Climate Change and Environmental Injustice: How Did We Get Here?"
Togaloo College, Library - Townsend Room, 3rd Floor
1:30pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Session - "Understanding Identity, Privilege and Power"
Tougaloo College
12:45pm •
Lunch
3:15pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Session - "The People's Movement Assemblies"
5:00pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Session - "The People's Movement Assemblies"
Tougaloo College, Amphitheater
8:00am •
Freedom School Registration and Harmabee
Tougaloo College, Ballard Hall 2nd Floor
1:30pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Session - "Creating a Campus Grassroots Campaign"
Tougaloo College, Bennie G. Thompson Center
12:00pm •
Freedom Film Festival
Tougaloo College, Galloway Rm. 9
1:30pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Session - "Disrupting the School to Prison Pipeline"
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall, Bennie G. Thompson 109,110
2:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education - " Structure Opportunities for Educational Access for the Bottom Quartile of the Economic Distribution: A Conversation"
5:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education - "Education as a Constitutional Right"
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall, Bennie Thompson Center 109,110
3:30pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education - "Education as a Constitutional Right" and "Fully Funding Public Education/MS Ballot Initiative"
Tougaloo College, Library - Roach Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
1:30pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Session - "Inter-generational Healing: Triumph or Trauma"
Tougaloo College, Library 1st Floor
2:30pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Workers' Rights - "Union Organizing/ Community Organizing"
4:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Workers' Rights - "Building Alliances with the Civil Rights Immigrant Rights Movement"
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center
8:00am •
Media Check-In
2:30pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Voting Rights - "Voting as a Constitutional Right"
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center
9:00am •
Freedom Summer 50th Plenary - "Freedom Summer 1964: It's Historic Performance"
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center
11:00am •
Freedom Summer Roll Call
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center
4:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Voting Rights - "Building Political Coalitions"
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center, Room 212 A & B
7:30am •
Registration
Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel
2:30pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Health - " Child Obesity: Health Disparities Among African American Children"
Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel
4:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Health - "Dreams Deferred: Chronic Disease and Life Expectancy Rates Among African Americans"
Tougaloo College, Youth Congress Tent
11:00am •
Youth Congress - State and Regional Meetings
1:30pm •
Youth Congress Breakout Session - " Systems Designed Against Us: Incarceration and Immigration"
Friday
, June 27
Tougaloo College
9:00am •
Freedom Summer 50th Plenary - "In the Mississippi River"
2:00pm •
Tour: Mobilization to Support the Nissan Workers in Canton, Mississippi
2:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Workers' Rights - Support for Nissan workers in Canton, Mississippi
Tougaloo College, Amphitheater
8:00am •
Freedom School Registration and Harambee
Tougaloo College, Bennie G. Thompson Center
12:00pm •
Freedom Film Festival
Tougaloo College, Bennie Thompson Center Room 209
2:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Public Forum
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall
12:30pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Lunch Theater - Acts and Movements: Arts and Culture in Times of Struggle
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall
2:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education - "Networking Organizations Working in After School Programs for Quality Education as a Constitutional Right and Freedom Schooling"
3:45pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Action Steps Presented by Education Working Group
5:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education - "A New Era of Philanthropic Support for Quality Education as a Civil Right for the Bottom Quartile"
Tougaloo College, Library 1st Floor
2:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Environment and Climate Justice - Rebel Smell: Voter Disenfranchisement and Environmental Justice in the South
Tougaloo College, Lunch Tents
12:00pm •
Lunch
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center
8:00am •
Media Check-In
2:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Voting Rights - "From Protest to Politics: The Importance of Demographic Changes in the United States Over the Next 30 Years"
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center
4:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Voting Rights - "From Protest to Politics: Building a Political Infrastructure Using the Tools of Communications, Research and Data"
8:00pm •
Freedom Fest: BLUES, JAZZ, HIP HOP and STEP SHOW
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center, Room 212 A & B
7:30am •
Registration
Tougaloo College, Warren Hall
7:00pm •
Meet the Authors Book Signing
Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel
2:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Health - "Targeted Marketing: Promoting Unhealthy Behaviors to African American Youth"
4:15pm •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Health - "The Faith-based Communities' Role in Addressing Health Disparities: Shining a Light on the 'Mississippi Model'"
Saturday
, June 28
Jackson Convention Complex
7:00pm •
Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Legacy Banquet & Recognition
Tougaloo College
12:00pm •
Lunch
Tougaloo College, Bennie G. Thompson Center
12:00pm •
Freedom Film Festival
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center
8:00am •
Media Check-In
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center Gym
9:00am •
FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Our Southern Strategy - "Where Do We Go From Here?"
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center Gym
1:30pm •
Freedom Summer Continues: "Boots on the Ground"
Tougaloo College, Youth Tent
2:00pm •
Youth Congress: Criminal Justice Town Hall
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, June 23
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, June 24
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, June 25
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, June 26
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, June 27
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, June 28
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, June 29
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