Parade participants will line up at the Mount Moriah parking lot at 9:00 a.m. with parade starting promptly at 10:00 a.m. The program will follow immediately after parade at UNION CHAPEL CHURCH.
Parade entry fee is $5. For more information contact Renee Hampton at 662-435-4512 or 662-779-0462.
Minion Kenneth Chauncey "KC" Morrison is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Mississippi State University. He was previously the Frederick Middlebush Professor and Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1989-2009. He also held the position of Vice Provost for Minority Affairs and Faculty Development there from 1989 to 1997. Prior to Missouri, Morrison was Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University, where he served as the Chair of Afro-American Studies for five years. Before joining Syracuse he was at Hobart & William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York and Tougaloo College in Mississippi.
Morrison has a BA. (cum laude) from Tougaloo College (1968), and MA (1969) and PhD (1977) in Political Science and African Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During the undergraduate years he participated in the Washington Semester Program at American University (DC), the Foreign Affairs Scholars Program as a foreign service intern at the State Department, and as a student leader in an African/Asian nation building study tour.
The professional pursuit of African Studies began for Morrison when he did his first fieldwork in Africa in 1968. Since then he has traveled widely over the African Continent, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe doing field work and consulting related to his research and teaching on African politics and society.
Though the professional work of Morrison was initially centered on African politics, he later expanded this to include the politics of African descendents in the Americas. His research, writings and teachings in this area have been concentrated on electoral politics in the Southern US and Latin America.
Morrison’s publications have appeared in the two broad fields of African and Afro-American politics. Among these are several books: Race and Democracy in the Americas: Brazil and the United States (forthcoming); Aaron Henry of Mississippi: A Political Biography of a Man and A Movement, (forthcoming); African Americans and Political Participation (2003); Black Political Mobilization, Leadership and Power (1987); Housing and Urban Poor in Africa (1982), edited with Peter Gutkind; and Ethnicity and Political Integration (1982). Also many articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as Polity, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Publius, Comparative Politics, Political Science Quarterly, and American Political Science Review.
Morrison is active in the professional associations and numerous local community organizations. He is past President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, of the Columbia Commission on Cultural Affairs, and of the Missouri Humanities Council. Presently he serves on the editorial board of the National Political Science Review, and previously on the editorial board of the American Political Science Review.
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