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
University of Memphis, 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
University of Memphis, 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, University of Memphis, 6:00pm Sponsored by the Marcus W. Orr Center
for the Humanities at the University of Memphis. Hooks Institute, Co-Sponsor