The Institute on Race and Ethnicity will host the 2012 Civil Rights Heritage Commemoration and Public Forum July 14, 2012. This will mark the one year anniversary of the Institute.
The program will include laying civil rights heritage markers along the Civil Rights Heritage Trail which was established to honor Arkansans who have devoted much of their lives to obtaining equal rights for citizens in Arkansas.
The commemoration event will also include a panel discussion on the educational legacy of the integration of Central High School and its current impact on Arkansas schools and a report on the work the Institute has accomplished in our first year.
This year, the honorees are the Little Rock Nine: Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo Beals; civil rights activists and journalists, L.C. and Daisy Bates, civil rights Attorney Christopher Mercer Jr., and former President William J. Clinton.
Interested in partnering with the UALR Institute on Race and Ethnicity in sponsoring the event? See Sponsorship Information Here.
Freedom Rider, John Curtis and Edna Cox, wife of the late Rev. Benjamin Cox, the head of the CORE Freedom Riders group stand in front of the Freedom Rider Bus in Little Rock, Arkansas July 10, 2011.
See information and photos from the first Civil Rights Heritage Markers event, the Little Freedom Riders Anniversary/Launch of the Institute on Race and Ethnicity.
