The biennial Media & Civil Rights History Symposium welcomes scholars from various disciplines and approaches who address the vital relationship between civil rights and public communication from local/national/transnational contexts, perspectives and periods.

The symposium includes the presentation of the biennial Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Award in Media & Civil Rights History. 

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Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Award in Media & Civil Rights History

The Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Award in Media & Civil Rights History, given biennially, recognizes the best journal article or chapter in an edited collection on the historical relationship between the media and civil rights published during the previous two years. 

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Contact Us

Kenneth Campbell, Ph.D.
Media & Civil Rights History Symposium
School of Journalism and Mass Communications
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Email:  kcampbell@sc.edu