2024 Freedom Summer of '64 Award Ceremony

Miami University President Greg Crawford invites you and a guest to celebrate historian, educator, and award-winning author, Carol Anderson '81, as the 2024 recipient of Miami University’s Freedom Summer of ’64 Award for her efforts to advance civil rights and social justice.

Agenda 
9:00 a.m. — Award Presentation
9:15 a.m. — Fireside Chat featuring Carol Anderson ’81 and Kelly Banks ’81

Alumni and friends are invited to attend the in-person event at Hall Auditorium or watch live online on our webinar platform.  

Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, a New York Times Bestseller, Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner.  She is also the author of Eyes Off the Prize:  The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955; Bourgeois Radicals:  The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960, and One Person, No Vote:  How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy​, which was long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/Galbraith Award in non-fiction.

This event is sponsored by the Miami University President’s Office, the Miami University Office of Transformational and Inclusive Excellence, and the Miami University Alumni Association.

This event is free and open to all Miamians.  Register here to watch online.  Please contact J.J. Slager at slagerjj@miamioh.edu with questions.