Black History Month Program
Presented by the History, Philosophy, and Theology Department
Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026 | Goodwin Hall, Fourth Floor, 411
9:30 a.m. | Stanley Nelson’s Award-Winning Documentary, Freedom Riders
11 a.m. | Danny Glover’s Award-Winning Documentary, Freedom Song
12:30 p.m. | In-Person Conversations with Guests MacArthur Cotton and Brenda Travis
Former SNCC Field Secretary, Freedom Rider, and author of Mississippi Black Cotton
Former SNCC Field Secretary and author of Mississippi’s Exiled Daughter: How My Civil Rights Baptism Under Fire Shaped my Life.
The events in Freedom Song are based, in part, on her life.