Community Symposium: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Mississippi Freedom Summer can be experienced virtually or in person. The notable guests attending the various panels, discussions and a documentary screening include:
- Judy Richardson: Author and filmmaker who served on staff in SNCC’s national office in Atlanta, in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, in Southwest Georgia, and in Lowndes County, AL.
- Charlie Cobb, Jr.: Journalist, author, and SNCC veteran who proposed the Freedom School project and organized for voting rights in Mississippi from 1962-1967.
- Courtland Cox: SNCC executive committee member, representative on the Steering Committee for the 1963 March on Washington, and organizer for Freedom Summer.
- Dorothy Zellner: Author/editor who worked for SNCC in Atlanta, GA, Danville, VA, Greenwood, MS, and ran the northeast office of SNCC in Cambridge, MA.
- Jerry Mitchell: Investigative reporter and author whose research has successfully helped convict four Ku Klux Klansmen of civil rights cold cases.
- Davis Houck: Author of “Black Bodies in the River: Searching for Freedom Summer,” which uncovers the claim that dozens of unidentified Black bodies were discovered in the June 1964 search for civil rights workers.
- Devery Anderson: Author of “A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard,” which resurrects the story of a Hattiesburg civil rights worker who attempted to enroll in the University of Southern Mississippi.
- Loki Mulholland: Filmmaker of “Dying to Vote,” a documentary about civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer.
- Joan Trumpauer Mulholland: Civil rights icon featured in the documentary “Dying to Vote.”
- Dennis Dahmer: Son of Vernon Dahmer, the film’s protagonist, who died after his home was firebombed in 1966.