The University of Tennessee at Martin’s 14th annual Civil Rights
Conference, which focuses on the theme “Freedom Summer: Fifty Years
Later,” continues today and Thursday with several distinguished
speakers.
Dave Dennis, who was active in
many civil rights organizations during the 1960s, will deliver the
keynote address at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Boling University Center’s
Watkins Auditorium.
Dennis
currently works for the Algebra Project, an organization to improve
minority children’s mathematics education, according to a news release.
He was a Freedom Rider and co-director of the Council of Federated
Organizations in Mississippi.
Dr.
Yohuru Williams, a professor of history and director of black studies
at Fairfield University, will speak at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, also in
Watkins Auditorium. He is the author of “Black Politics/White Power:
Civil Rights Black Power” and “Black Panthers in New Haven” and has
edited several works on the Black Panther Party, the release said.
He also will serve as a featured speaker, delivering an address titled “On the Significance of the Civil Rights Movement.”
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