Preliminary Agenda:
Friday, Oct. 26: Acknowledging the Past
and Telling the Story
9:00 am Welcome & Purpose
Dr. Joseph Jordan, Director, Sonja Haynes Stone Center University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
9:15 Moore's Ford Lynching, 1946, Walton County, GA
Mr. Kirklyn Dixon, Mr. Rich Rusk
9:35 Ed Johnson Lynching, 1906, Chattanooga, TN.
Mr. Leroy Phillips, Mr. Fred Thurkill
9:55 Orangeburg Massacre, 1968, Orangeburg, S.C.
Dr. William Hine, Prof. Cleveland Sellers, Jr.
10:15 Break
10:30 Robert Marshall Lynching, 1925, Price, UT
Rev. France Davis, Prof. Larry Gerlach
10:50 Tulsa Race Riot, 1921, Tulsa, OK
Mr. Hannibal Johnson, Mr. Peter Churchwell
11:10 Rosewood Massacre, 1923, Rosewood, FL.
Mrs. Sherry DuPree, Mrs. Janie Black
11:30 Wilmington Race Riot, 1898, Wilmington, NC.
Dr. Tom Schmid, Mr. Herbert Harris
11:50 Duluth Lynchings of 1920, Duluth, MN.
Mr. Henry Black
12:10 pm Ocoee Massacre of 1920, Ocoee, FL
Mr. Curtis Michelson
12:30 Lunch on your own
2:00 Panel Discussion . Moderator will ask questions from cards submitted
by audience.
2:45 Break
3:00-5:15 Break Out Sessions:
A. Truth Telling and Remembering
B. Who is Accountable?
C. Is Reconciliation Possible?
Sessions are 40 minutes each, run concurrently, and repeat 3 times each.
5:15 Break
5:30 "Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America."
video and discussion with Mr. James Allen and Dr. Joseph Jordan
6:30 Dinner on your own
7:30-9:30 "Researching a Lynching"
Hands-on, 30 minute, computer and library search tutorials Dr. Randall
Burkett and Staff
Saturday, Oct. 27: Organizing strategies for Memorializing Racial Atrocities
9:00 am "A Festival Of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings,
1882-193ó"
Dr. E. M. Beck, University of Georgia
10:00 Break
10:15 "Blood at the Root: Lynching, Divided Memory, Race and Justice
in America" Dr. Emma Coleman Jordan, Georgetown University Law Center
11:15 Panel Discussion: Points of Controversy in Justice and Reconciliation
12:00 pm Lunch on your own
1:30 Break Out Sessions (choose one):
A. Researching a Lynching
B. Growing an Organization
2:30 Break Out Sessions (choose one):
A. Creating Monuments and Memorials
B. Getting Word out to Press & Public
3:30 Break
3:45 Panel Discussion: Where Do We Go From Here?
5:00 Evening Break
7:00 Group Dinner TBA
Sunday, Oct. 28: Honoring the Dead
We travel to Walton County, 40 miles east of Atlanta for these events:
9:30 am Memorial Service at Mooreís Ford Bridge
Call for Justice and Healing, reading the names of all 458 lynching victims
in Georgia, gospel music, looking to the future.
11:30 Covered dish lunch for those who tour cemetery restorations.
Invited Participants Include:
James Allen; author, collector
Mark Auslander; Asst. Prof of Anthropology, Oxford College of Emory University,
MARIAL
E. M. Beck; Professor of Sociology, Univ. of Georgia
Henry Black; Founder; Clayton, Jackson, McGhie Memorial Committee
Janie Black; Rosewood Heritage Foundation
Randall Burkett; African-American Studies Bibliographer, Emory University
Peter Churchwell; Tulsa Race Riot Commission
Rev. France Davis; pastor, community activist
Kirklyn Dixon; plant manager, MFMC Chairman
Sherry DuPree; Rosewood Heritage Foundation
Larry Gerlach; Professor of History, Univ. of Utah
Herbert Harris; co-founder, 1898 Foundation
William Hine; history professor, South Carolina State University
Hannibal Johnson; attorney, author of Black Wall Street
Emma Coleman Jordan; Georgetown University Law Center, author
Joseph Jordan; Director, Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, UNC
at Chapel Hill
Curtis Michelson; Co-Founder, Democracy Forum
Leroy Phillips; attorney, co-author of Contempt of Court
Rich Rusk; writer, MFMC secretary
Tom Schmid; professor of philosophy & religion, University of North
Carolina at Wilmington
Cleveland Sellers, Jr.; SNCC worker, director of African American Studies,
University of S.C.
Theophus Smith; Prof. of Religion, Emory University
LaFredrick Thurkill; teacher, community activist
