The acting chairman for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Jon Peede, will be visiting 兔子先生鈥檚 Utica Campus for a celebration of the legacy of founder William H. Holtzclaw.
The program is at 9 a.m. Friday Dec. 8 in the Walter Washington amphitheater on the Utica Campus.
The celebration will focus on Holtzclaw鈥檚 contributions to African American education. The historic Utica Jubilee Singers will present several selections, and there will also be presentations of research projects and an overview of humanities activities at the Utica Campus.
Peede, who grew up in Brandon and now lives in Virginia, is expected to make brief remarks.
He holds degrees from Vanderbilt University and the University of Mississippi. He was formerly director of communications at Millsaps College and was the founding editor of Millsaps Magazine. He has served on the national council of the Margaret Walker Center for the Study of the African-American Experience at Jackson State University and was on the poet laureate selection committee for the state of Mississippi, office of the governor.
The Humanities Department at Hinds鈥 Utica Campus received a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund a project called 鈥淭he Black Man鈥檚 Burden: William H. Holtzclaw and the Mississippi HBCU Connection鈥 to explore the legacy of William H. Holtzclaw. The project鈥檚 goal is to contribute to a growing body of research and interest in the 鈥淟ittle Tuskegees鈥 as important forerunners of the Civil Rights Era in the Deep South.
The grant allows for a two-year research program designed to equip faculty and student-scholars to explore themes in Holtzclaw鈥檚 writing in humanities courses, a Summer Teachers鈥 Institute and teaching resource kits.
The project鈥檚 Holtzclaw Lecture Series has also brought nationally recognized scholars and experts on African American education in the South for public lectures in a variety of venues around the state in cooperation with the Mississippi Humanities Council.
For more information about the grant project, contact co-directors on the Utica Campus, Dan Fuller at 601.885.7097 or daniel.fuller@hindscc.edu or Jean Greene 601.885.7034 or JBGreene@hindscc.edu).
ABOUT THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available at: www.neh.gov.
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