{"id":4569,"date":"2024-12-16T21:02:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T21:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:25:37","slug":"reflections-on-the-mississippi-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/2024\/12\/16\/reflections-on-the-mississippi-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on the Mississippi Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us at COFO on Thursday, January 16, for a special event. <em><strong>Reflections on the Mississippi Movement<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0will examine two seminal works,\u00a0<em>I\u2019ve Got the Light of Freedom<\/em>\u00a0by Charles Payne and\u00a0<em>Local People\u00a0<\/em>by John Dittmer. An excellent panel of scholars will be present to talk with Dr. Payne about these works and engage in a general conversation about the civil rights movement in Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3:30 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0Ribbon Cutting: COFO Facility Upgrades<\/p>\n<p><strong>4:00 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0Conversation with Dr. Charles Payne<br \/>\nWelcome: Dr. Christina Thomas<br \/>\nOpening Remarks and Reflections: Dr. Rebecca Tuuri<br \/>\nConversation: Dr. Charles Payne, Attorney Carroll Rhodes, Mr. Benjamin Saulsberry, Dr. Charles Bolton, moderator<br \/>\nClosing Remarks and Reflections: Dr. Daphne Chamberlain<\/p>\n<p><strong>5:30 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0Reception<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to also mark your calendars for our <strong>57th annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday Convocation<\/strong> on January 17 at 10:00 a.m. in the Rose E. McCoy Auditorium, followed by our <strong>For My People Awards Luncheon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"SpnToq7rNa\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/2024\/12\/16\/57th-annual-martin-luther-king-jr-convocation-events\/\">57th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Convocation Events<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;57th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Convocation Events&#8221; &#8212; Margaret Walker Center | Jackson State University\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/2024\/12\/16\/57th-annual-martin-luther-king-jr-convocation-events\/embed\/#?secret=HMFH4DG9sh#?secret=SpnToq7rNa\" data-secret=\"SpnToq7rNa\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us at COFO on Thursday, January 16, for a special event. Reflections on the Mississippi Movement\u00a0will examine two seminal works,\u00a0I\u2019ve Got the Light of Freedom\u00a0by Charles Payne and\u00a0Local People\u00a0by John Dittmer. An excellent panel of scholars will be present to talk with Dr. Payne about these works and engage in a general conversation about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":454,"featured_media":4592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4874,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions\/4874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}