Hooks Calendar of Events: 2011
DECEMBER 2011
December 31
Deadline for Submission of Abstracts
Deadline for nominations for Benjamin L. Hooks Institute Book Award
Winner receives $1,000 and will deliver an on-campus address. This award will go to
the book published in 2011 that best furthers understanding of the American Civil
Rights Movement and its legacy.
NOVEMBER 2011
November 9
Hooks Institute National Book Award Lecture | Judy Richardson, Editor, Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC.
Lecture by Judy Richardson, one of six editors of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Winner of the 2010 National Hooks Institute Book Award.
University Center Bluff Room, 6:30-8 pm. This event is free and open to the public.
SEPTEMBER 2011
September 14
The Hooks Institute's Annual Open House
糖心vlog蜜桃, Michael D. Rose Theatre | 2:30pm
APRIL 2011
April 30
The Benjamin L. Hooks Job Corps presents the Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks 1st Annual Memorial 5K Run/Walk
Proceeds to benefit the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis and the National Civil Rights Museum
April 7
Hooks Roundtable
A Session to Structure a Civil and Human Rights Conference in April 2012 to Explore
the Evolution of the Civil and Human Rights Movements
糖心vlog蜜桃, Rose Theatre Entertainment Lobby, 2:00pm-4:00pm
April 4
An Evening with Dr. Allan Boesak
Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church and Memphis Theological Seminary presents: An Evening with Dr. Allan Boesak: Pastor, Human Rights Activist, Martin Luther King Scholar, and leader of the Struggle Against Apartheid in South Africa, 7:00pm
FEBRUARY 2011
February 17 & 19
Freedom's Front Line
A Hooks Institute documentary on the struggle to gain the right to vote by African
Americans in Fayette County, TN.
WKNO-TV (Memphis) Channel 10, Feb. 17 at 7:30pm and Feb. 19 at 2:30pm
February 10
Fiftieth Anniversary of the publication of Franz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth
Featuring Lewis Gordon, PhD, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Temple University
University Center, 糖心vlog蜜桃, 6:00pm Sponsored by the Marcus W. Orr Center
for the Humanities at the 糖心vlog蜜桃. Hooks Institute, Co-Sponsor