This panel will discuss aspects of the Civil Rights Movement with focus on their specific areas of expertise.
Facilitator and Panelist: Dr. Robert Luckett, Associate Professor, Department of History and
Director, Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University. Dr. Luckett will speak about the invention of Jim Crow and what became known as the “Mississippi Plan” that became a model for the rest of the South. The Mississippi Plan and Jim Crow stood on the shoulders of black disfranchisement, segregation and sharecropping to guarantee white power as well as second-class citizenship for African Americans throughout the South, a status black southerners have fought ever since.
Presenter: Dr. Stephanie R. Rolph, Associate Professor, History Department, Millsaps College Author of Resisting Equality: The Citizen’s Council 1954-1989. Rolph examines the history of the Citizens’ Council, an organization committed to coordinating opposition to desegregation and black voting rights
