Announcing the Second Annual Farrar
Media and Civil Rights History Award

Honoring University of South Carolina Professor Emeritus Ronald T. Farrar and his late wife, Gayla D. Farrar, this award recognizes the best journal article or chapter in an edited collection on the historical relationship between the media and civil rights.

Submitted articles or chapters should be works of historical scholarship and must have been published in 2010 or 2011.

We encourage submissions that address the media and civil rights from a range of historical contexts, periods, and perspectives.

Scholars may nominate and submit their own work or the work of others by sending four copies of the article/ chapter and a cover letter describing the merits of the work. A national panel of experts will judge the contest.

The winner will receive a plaque and $1,000 and must agree to present his or her work in a public lecture at the University of South Carolina in the spring semester of 2012. The winner’s travel expenses will be covered.

Mail nominations postmarked by Jan. 5, 2012 (THE DEADLINE HAS PASSED) to:
Kathy Roberts Forde
School of Journalism and Mass Communications
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208

For more information contact:
Kathy Roberts Forde
Phone: 803-777-3321
Email: fordekr@sc.edu

Submissions should be sent via first class U.S. Mail or overnight delivery. Late or emailed submissions will not be considered.

Media and Civil Rights History Symposium

The School of Journalism and Mass Communications hosted its first Media & Civil Rights History Symposium on March 18 and 19, 2011. A biennial event, the symposium is designed to print together civil rights and media historians to share scholarly knowledge on the vital relationships between civil rights movements and issues and various types of public communication in the modern world. The next symposium will be scheduled for spring 2013. Please return to this site for updates about the exact dates of the next symposium.

To see the 2011 symposium program, click here. (pdf)

To learn about the 2011 keynote speaker Isabel Wilkerson, click here.

Contact:
Kathy Roberts Forde
803.777.3321
E-mail: fordekr@sc.edu
School of Journalism and Mass Communications
University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC 29208

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