Brother Outsider, Brother Insider: A Political Biography of Lawrence Guyot Jr. with Chris Danielson

Dr. Chris Danielson, Professor of History at Montana Technological University, will be on campus Tuesday, September 21 at 6 PM in Jobe Hall Auditorium to present a book talk on his latest book Brother Outsider, Brother Insider: A Political Biography of Lawrence Guyot Jr. (The University of North Carolina Press, 2025). Brother Outsider, Brother Insider is the first biography that looks at the life of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party director Lawrence Guyot, Jr. Guyot was born in 1939 in Pass Christian, Mississippi. During the 1960s, he attended Tougaloo College where he became active with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1964, he was elected director of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and attended the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party pushed for the desegregation of the Democratic National Convention. Guyot passed away in 2012.

This event is part of the School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences’ year of programing focused on the history and culture of Mississippi and Mississippian. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact artshumsocsci@deltastate.edu or (662) 846-4060.