9:00 a.m. - Doors Open
9:30 a.m. - Opening Remarks
Greg Crawford (President Miami University) and Rodney Coates, PhD (Professor, Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University)
9:45 a.m. - Video: Reading Freedom Summer
by Andy Rice and class (Miami University)
10:15 a.m. - Panel Discussion: Eye Witness to History
Moderator: Nishani Frazier
- Joyce Ladner (American civil rights activist, author, civil servant and sociologist)
- John Frazier (State Youth Leader for the NAACP in Mississippi)
11:10 a.m. - Panel Discussion: Freedom Summer Now
Moderator: Rodney D. Coates, PhD (Professor, Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University)
- Veronica Sanders, Miami Alum (D.A. Houston Texas)
- Imokhai Okolo, Miami Alum (Editor Law Journal, Law Student University of Akron “School of Law)
- Erica Bland-Durosinmi, Miami Alum (Political Field Director, SEIU-Healthcare, Chicago, Illinois)
- Sheryl Long, Miami Alum (Assistant City Manager, Cincinnati, Ohio)
12:00 p.m. - Lunch Break
1:00 p.m. - Panel Discussion: Freedom Summer Future
Moderator: Benjamin Phillips III (Junior, Finance, Miami University)
- Lauren Poythress (Political Science, Black World Studies, Junior –Miami University)
- Ty Little (Strategic Communications, Sophomore, Miami University)
- Brandon Small (Political Science, English Literature, ASG- Miami University)
2:00 p.m. - Panel Discussion: Freedom Summer documentary
3:15 p.m. - Art and Freedom conversation with Larry Collins
4:00 p.m. - Performance: Choosing Freedom in the Harriet Tubman Theater
5:00 p.m. - Reception
Moderator: Jacqueline Dace (Deputy Director, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center)
- Reena Evers Everette (daughter of Medgar and Myrlie Evers)
- Lisa McNair (sister of Denise McNair, killed in 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing)
