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OCTOBER 18-24, 2020 WHAT'S UP! 5 FAQ 'Conversations on Anti-Racism in the South and Arkansas' WHEN — 6 p.m. Oct. 22 WHERE — Fayetteville Public Library via Zoom COST — Free INFO — Register at faylib.org FAYETTEVILLE Hard Memories, Future Hopes LARA JO HIGHTOWER NWA Democrat-Gazette W hen KUAF presents its online panel discussion "The Movement That Never Was: Conversations on Anti-Racism in the South and Arkansas" on Oct. 22, the Zoom room will be filled with luminaries that have an abundance of expertise in the subject area: journalist Paul Keifer, who is hosting the KUAF podcasts linked to the panel; Lisa Corrigan, professor of communications, director of the Gender Studies Program and affiliate faculty in both African and African-American Studies and Latin American Studies in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas and author of "Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation" and "Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties"; and Jay Childers, associate professor and chairman of Department of Communication Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas and author of "The Evolving Citizen: American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement." One panelist, however, was an active participant in the Civil Rights Era, the primary topic of conversation. Michael Simmons was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and spent five months during 1965 in West Helena, Marvel, Marianna and Elaine, organizing, KUAF panel discusses anti-racism in the South See Anti-Racism Page 38 Simmons In this March 7, 1965 file photo, state troopers use clubs against participants of a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala. During that same year, Michael Simmons, then a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was in Arkansas organizing, educating and registering voters. "America's greatness is the result of the determination of its oppressed people to make democracy work," said Simmons, a member of the Oct. 22 KUAF panel, in a 1995 speech. "Democracy and justice are too important to leave to the politicians." (AP File Photo)