Acts and Movements: Arts and Culture in Times of Struggle
Friday, June 27th
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Tougaloo College
This panel will bring together multiple generations of artists/activists and scholars to uplift the role of cultural institutions in the Civil Rights movement and examine the plight of their institutional descendants and leaders in the contemporary struggle.
Panelists
Dr. Doris Derby
Free Southern Theater founder and Civil Rights Pioneer
John O’Neal
Free Southern Theater/Junebug Productions/Alternate ROOTS founder
Clarissa Myrick-Harris
PhD, Margaret Mitchell Marsh Dean Of Humanities and Social Sciences & Professor of African American Studies Morehouse College
Stephanie McKee
Junebug Productions Inc., Artistic Director
Moderator
Carlton Turner
Alternate ROOTS, Executive Director, M.U.G.A.B.E.E. Co-Artistic Director