{"id":403,"date":"2007-11-12T10:07:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T16:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezing.me\/transfer\/?p=403"},"modified":"2014-09-23T09:25:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:25:25","slug":"regional-racial-reconciliation-efforts-proving-to-be-slow-but-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/regional-racial-reconciliation-efforts-proving-to-be-slow-but-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Racial Reconciliation Efforts Proving to be Slow, But Successful"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nOXFORD, Miss. — Efforts to improve race relations and
\nimplement policy reforms in Southern communities have been
\nsuccessful, but change remains a slow process.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\nThat was the consensus today (Nov. 9) among 14
\nrepresentatives from various organizations attending the
\nregional Alliance for Truth and Racial Reconciliation’s
\nPlanning Conference at the University of Mississippi. The
\nfirst seven of 14 case studies discussing specific
\nresponses to racial violence were presented during the
\nmeeting, which was co-hosted by the William Winter
\nInstitute for Racial Reconciliation.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe other seven case study presenters are to be heard
\nSaturday (Nov. 10). A panel of conferees hearing all the
\ncases is scheduled to give feedback on the best strategies
\nin a public program at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Peabody Hall.
\nPanelists include former Gov. Winter and Rita Bender, widow
\nof one of the three civil rights workers killed in Neshoba
\nCounty in 1964.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n“The alliance was formed at a 2006 conference at the
\nuniversity, which brought together groups from across the
\nAmerican South devoted to racial justice and
\nreconciliation,” said Susan Glisson, executive director of
\nthe Winter Institute. “The coalition’s aim is to establish
\na new meaning for the Confederacy and create a New South
\nthat will lead the nation away from racism, violence and
\npoverty, and toward truth, equality and peace.”
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nAmong the notable case study presenters was the Moore’s
\nFord Memorial Committee. Since its formation in 1997, the
\ngrassroots organizers have had a 10-year struggle to see
\njustice served in the unsolved 1946 mob lynching of two
\nblack couples George and Mae Murray Dorsey, and Roger and
\nDorothy Malcom at the Moore’s Ford Bridge 40 miles east of
\nAtlanta.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n“We first located their four gravesites, then helped
\nrestore the cemeteries and installed the grave markers,”
\nsaid Hattie Lawson, MFMC chair. Achievements have included
\na memorial service for the Dorseys and Malcoms, a military
\nservice for World War II veteran George Dorsey, an annual
\nhigh school talent show\/MLK celebration, a scholarship
\nbanquet and presentation of seven $1,000 awards to
\ngraduating seniors of local public high schools, Lawson
\nsaid.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n“We have called for prosecution, believing several killers
\nto still be alive, and the FBI has reopened the case. Yet
\nwe face opposition to our work, challenges in moving
\nforward when dealing with a stagnated investigation,”
\nLawson said.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe MFMC and Southern Truth and Reconciliation presented a
\nspring 2006 program in Newman, Ga., where Sam Hose was
\nlynched in 1899. Preserving such horrible and controversial
\nhistory presents continuing challenges for Coweta County’s
\nAfrican-American Heritage Museum and Research Center, which
\nseeks to erect a slave cabin and renovate a historic black
\nschool.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n“Attracting enough volunteers, funds and energy to fulfill
\nthe museum’s mission is a continuing challenge,” said Diane
\nWood, acting director of the museum. “Can the successful
\nexperiences of other grassroots memorial groups popping up
\naround the South be exported to the hundreds of communities
\nacross the nation where lynchings and racial violence
\noccurred?”
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nOther Friday presenters included Janie Bradley-Blake, who
\ndiscussed the 1994 Florida legislative hearings’ statements
\nof Rosewood, Fla., survivors; Marvin Dunn, who has
\ndirected, narrated and produced a documentary about Willie
\nJames Howard, a 15-year-old black boy lynched in 1944 by
\nthree Florida white men for writing a love letter to a
\nwhite girl; and the Anthony Crawford Remembered Memorial
\nCommittee, which seeks to have the South Carolina
\nlegislature offer an apology for his and other lynchings.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nFor more information or assistance related to a disability,
\ncontact Glisson at 662-915-6734 or glisson@olemiss.edu. A
\nfull conference schedule is available at
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n http:\/\/www.ATRR.org<\/a>.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo learn more about the Winter Institute, visit
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.olemiss.edu\/winterinstitute<\/a>.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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