The Center for Civil and Human Rights Partnership announces the formation of a Content Council which is chaired by Prof. Earl Lewis of Emory University along with co-chairs Prof. Cliff Kuhn of Georgia State University and Prof. Darlene Clark-Hine of Northwestern University. The Council’s 22 members include scholars, movement leaders, artists, museum, education and media experts. The Council will prioritize and detail the stories that should be told in the Center’s exhibits and programs and determine how to tell them appropriately and accurately. Doug Shipman, the executive Director of the CCHR Partnership said, “We’ve learned from researching other efforts to build new museums that developing a strong content roadmap is crucial to the entire process. The expertise and diversity of insights this Content Council represents is exactly in line with the national vision for the Center.”
Members will meet regularly by phone and in-person over the course of this summer and fall to develop an overall content roadmap that will be presented by the end of the year. The Roadmap will be used by both the architect and the exhibit designer to ensure that the Center is designed and built around the content; a major recommendation put forth by the Working Group in 2006. As the Content Council determines the overarching story for the Center, we will continue to uncover new and unique stories to tell through the Center and discover artifacts that help illuminate the stories for a variety of audiences. The members of the Content Council include:
Chair:
Earl Lewis – Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Emory University
Co-Chairs:
Darlene Clark Hine – Board of Trustees Professor of African American History at Northwestern University
Clifford Kuhn – Professor of History at Georgia State University
Members:
Clayborne Carson – Director, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute at Stanford University
Frank Catroppa – Retired Superintendent of Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site
Herschelle Challenor- Atlanta Student Movement leader, African Development Professional
Milton Clipper – President, Public Broadcasting Atlanta
Spencer Crew – President, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Connie Curry – Student Movement leader through SNCC and American Friends Service Committee, author
John Evans – Founder of C-SPAN
Winston Grady-Willis – Director, Graduate Studies of African American Studies at Syracuse University
Deborah Grayson – Project Manager-Social Sciences, Georgia Public Broadcasting
Charles Henry – Professor of African American Studies at University of California, Berkeley
Steve Hollingworth – COO, CARE
Robin Kelley - Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California
Kerry Kennedy – Chairman, Speak Truth to Power
Lonnie King – Atlanta Student Movement leader, former President of NAACP
Kathy Nasstrom – Associate Professor of History at University of San Francisco
Barbara Ransby – Associate Professor of History and African-American Studies at University of Illinois-Chicago
George Sanchez – Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California
Doug Shipman – Executive Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights Partnership
C.T. Vivian – Student Movement leader, SCLC executive staff member
Lynnette Young – President and CEO, Damespointe