Fifteenth Amendment Symposium

Event Details

End: September 23, 2015
Contact: mhenderson@library.msstate.edu
More Info: http://www.usgrantlibrary.org/newsandevents/15thamendment.asp

On September 23-25, 2015, the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and other units of Mississippi State University will host an academic symposium celebrating the 145th anniversary of the 15th Amendment and the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Several key note speakers will be featured, and individual papers and panels are invited.  One-page proposals for individual speakers, two- page proposals for a complete panel, and appropriate vita should be sent, no later than February 1, 2015, to the chair of the Panel Selection Committee, Dean Chris Snyder, Shackouls Honors College, P.O. Box EH, Mississippi State, MS, 39762.  For further information, please visit www.usgrantlibrary.org or contact John F. Marszalek johnmarsz@yahoo.com or Meg Henderson, mhenderson@library.msstate.edu, or call 662-325-4552.