December 11, 2013
Dec. 11, 2013
Student speaker to share story with graduating class
By Michael Riley
Michael Mifflin had to make a decision.
After a less than ideal freshman year, he found himself on academic probation standing at a crossroads; to leave the university to explore other options, or work toward...
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September 26, 2012
During the summer of 1964, poll taxes, voter ID laws and death threats prevented people from exercising their right to vote.
The Freedom Summer Campaign, a group made up mostly of students, traveled to Mississippi in 1964 to register as many African American voters as possible.
The campaign...
Tags: "Student Leadership and Inclusive Excellence", 1962, 1964, a capella, African American, Americans, Amy Smith, arrests, Chancellor's Committee of Inclusive Excellence, Charles Neblett, civil rights, College of Arts and Communication, dean, Diversity Forum, Freedom Summer, Freedom Summer Campaign, grammy, History inspires annual diversity forum, Jim Crow laws, keynote, Mark McPhail, Michael Mifflin, Mississippi, quartet, social justice, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Freedom Singers, Sweet Honey in the Rock, UW-Whitewater, voter, Warhawk Ambassador, Young Auditorium
