On Thursday, Oct. 8 Dr. Daphne Chamberlain will present “‘Full-Fledged Agitators’: Youth Protest in Civil Rights-Era Mississippi” as part of the Ina E. Gordy Honors College Forum Series at Mississippi University for Women. The 6 p.m. event in Nissan Auditorium is free and open to the public.
A native of Columbus, Chamberlain earned her doctorate in history from the University of Mississippi, where her research focused on the participation of children ages 7-18 in Jackson during the Civil Rights Movement.
“Dr. Chamberlain brings the freedom struggle of the 1960s alive for today’s youth as they themselves search for ways to make change,” said Kim Whitehead, interim director of the Honors College.
Now assistant professor of history and coordinator of Civil Rights and Social Justice Initiatives at Tougaloo College, in 2012 Chamberlain became director of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) Civil Rights Education Center at Jackson State University. In 2014 she co-chaired the Mississippi Freedom Summer Youth Congress as part of the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer.
She is a core faculty member of the Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy and serves on the boards of the Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center, the Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Mississippi Historical Society.
Chamberlain’s presentation coincides with The W’s Common Reading Initiative focus on Anne Moody’s memoir “Coming of Age in Mississippi,” which chronicles Moody’s increasing civil rights activism while a student at Tougaloo in the early 1960s.
For more information, contact the Honors College at 662-241-6850 or email [email protected].
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