PROGRAM
THURSDAY, APRIL 16
2:00-5:00 pm Tour of Atlanta Civil Rights Sites (details to follow)
6:00-7:00 pm
Preserving America’s Culture of Civil Rights Activism
Brent Leggs, Executive Director
National Trust for Historic Preservation African American Cultural
Heritage Action Fund
7:00-8:00 pm Opening Reception
FRIDAY, APRIL 17
8:30-9:00 am Coffee and Networking
• Richard Laub, Retired Director (Moderator)
GSU Heritage Preservation Program
• Martha Bouyer, Executive Director
Historic Bethel Baptist Church Community Restoration Fund
• Ryan Rowberry, Associate Professor of Law
Georgia State University College of Law
• National Park Service
10:45 am-12:00 pm
Protection for Sites and Their Contexts
• Richard Laub, Retired Director (Moderator)
Georgia State University Heritage Preservation Program
• Jeanne Cyriaque, Cultural Heritage Specialist
• James Reap, Vice President
United States/International Council on Monuments and Sites
12:00-2:00 pm Break
2:00-3:30 pm
U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites as Sites of Conscience
• Linda Norris, Global Networks Program Director (Moderator)
International Coalition of Sites of Conscience
• Robin White, Superintendent
Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site
• John Swaine, CEO
International Civil Rights Center and Museum
• Noelle Trent, Director of Interpretation, Collections, and Education
National Civil Rights Museum
• Nicole Moore, Interpretation and Program Manager
National Center for Civil and Human Rights
3:30-5:00 pm
Partnering with History to Improve the World
Ruth Abram, Co-founder
International Coalition of Sites of Conscience
5:00-6:30 pm Reception
SATURDAY, APRIL 18
8:30-9:00 am Coffee and Networking
9:00-10:30 am
Current Civil Rights Sites Initiatives
•
Glenn Eskew, Project Director, GSU World Heritage
Initiative (Moderator)
World Heritage Civil Rights Movement Sites Serial Nomination
•
Ed Mizzell, Luckie Advertising
The U.S. Civil Rights Trail and Travel South, Inc.
•
Priscilla Cooper
, Project Director
Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium
• Leslie Canaan, Senior Field Officer
National Trust African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
• National Park Service
U.S. Dept. of the Interior African American Civil Rights Network
African American
Civil Rights Grants
Program
10:45-11:45 am
A Congressional Strategy for Funding the U.S. Commitment to
World Heritage
Destry Jarvis, Vice President
United States/International Council on Monuments and Sites
11:45 am Closing Remarks
12:00 pm Adjourn