Next year will mark two historic anniversaries in U.S. civil rights, and MSU wants to makes sure they don’t go unobserved.
Marketed as “a year-long community conversation on civil and human rights,” Project 60/50 was announced Tuesday in an email from MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon. The event will observe the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 60th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which banned segregation in public schools.
Coordinated by MSU’s Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives, the project will host or facilitate a multitude of events next year at MSU. The office’s director, Paulette Granberry Russell, said the idea for the project was a long time coming.
“It was actually an idea that arose out of some early discussions two years ago with some of our faculty,” Granberry Russell said.
Granberry Russell said Project 60/50 is meant to be open to all, but requested that those who want to operate under the banner of Project 60/50 register for the event.
“I think too often there’s a view that issues of civil rights, particularly in this country, are a part of our past, as opposed to the present or the future,” Granberry Russell said.
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