Student Conference Schedule

 McComb Legacies Presents: Exploring Our Past….Shaping Our Future
Student Conference 2013

Agenda (working agenda, subject to change)

  February 21-22, 2013

Day 1:

8:15 – 9:00 a.m. – Opening Session

• Welcome – Superintendent
• Introduction by McComb Legacies students (present NHD documentary)

9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. – Student led interactive driving tour (registration required)

Lunch – 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. at Cotton Gin

5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. – Community discussion at the McComb Public Library (open to the public)

• See the short film produced by McComb high school students on the
  history of the voting rights struggle in McComb. This film is a Mississippi
  History Day competition entry on Feb. 23. (So you will see a sneak preview!)
• Engage in a dialogue with Civil Rights Movement veterans including John Due, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Patsy  Ruth Butler, Johnny and Michael Nobles, Shirley Bates, and more. Facilitated by Paul Ortiz from the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.

Day 2:

8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. –Interactive Panel Discussion facilitated by Dr. Paul Ortiz (registration required)

• Session 1 – 8:15 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
• Session 2 – 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Panelists

• Dr. Gwendolyn Simmons
• Mr. John Due

10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. – Oral history session(s)

Dialogue & Open discussion facilitated by UFL, students will observe and ask questions

• Mr. John Due
• Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
• Local veterans

12:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Lunch   

2:30 p.m.  –  3:30 p.m. – Performance Show/ Poetry Slam

• McComb Legacies
• Students including LJP
• Maddrama (Jackson State University)