Stunning Little Dixie: Student Activism on the University of Missouri Campus and its Legacy

Name: Stunning Little Dixie: Student Activism on the University of Missouri Campus and its Legacy
Start: 2026-02-24T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-02-24T19:00:00-06:00
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Tue, Feb 24, 2026

6 PM – 7 PM CST (GMT-6)

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The history of Black student activism at MU, primarily the activism right after WWII with desegregation, including the push to desegregate the Big 10 sports conference and the public accommodations work students did in Columbia. The presentation will include discussing the formation of LBC and some of the other activism in the 60s and 70s with the women's rights movement and the potential surveillance of activists on campus by the university president. The presentation will focus on the students and what they explicitly do because students voices and actions matter and what comes from these movements (e.g., Black Studies classes, the program, the department, and Women and Gender studies classes and eventually department) and the discourse that happens too.
This event will be a hybrid event and can be viewed live at https://umsystem.zoom.us/j/97615145169

Food Provided (Refreshments and appetizers will be available immediately after the event in the Lloyd Gaines Fireplace Lounge at Hulston Hall.)

Speakers

Dr. Mary Beth Brown

Clara R. Toppan Endowed Rare Book Curator, Toppan Rare Books Library, American Heritage Center

University of Wyoming

Dr. Mary Beth Brown is currently the Clara R. Toppan Endowed Rare Book Curator at the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. She received her MA in History from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, a MSLIS from the University of Kentucky, and a PhD in history from the University of Missouri. Brown’s research centers on civil rights activism among college students, especially student veterans, during the period between 1946 and 1954. She is currently working on an article about disfranchisement and censorship on the MU campus right after the end of World War II.

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