There are a number of events planned in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary
of the Brown decision. We’ll have details on all public
lectures, seminars, conferences, and other events taking place
on campus and in the community.
All events are in Ann Arbor, unless otherwise specified.
Check back frequently for updated information; we’ll post dates
and times as soon as they become available. If you have any questions
about the events listed here, please email
us.
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, UNLESS OTHERWISE
INDICATED.
EVENTS MARKED WITH A BLOCK M INDICATE MAJOR
COMMEMORATIVE EVENTS
January | February
| March | April | May
JANUARY
12 
Opening Lecture, MLK Symposium: “A Conversation
with the Brown Sisters”
>>WATCH THE WEBCAST!
Rackham Auditorium
915 East Washington Street
Speakers: Linda
Brown Thompson and Cheryl Brown Henderson,
daughters of Rev. Oliver Brown,
plaintiff in the Brown v. Board case.
“A Conversation with the Brown
Sisters” is
a lecture and interactive dialogue
between Cheryl and Linda Brown and University
of Michigan students. Cheryl and
Linda
Brown are the daughters of the late
Reverend Oliver Brown, who fought for
the integration
of public education. The Brown sisters
will share their experiences relative
to the Brown decision and
talk to students about the recent Supreme
Court decisions on the Michigan cases.
Audience members
are encouraged
to take part in the question & answer
session that follows.
For more information please
contact Silvia Carranza, 734-936-1055
Sponsored by the 2004 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium
Planning Committee and the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives.
>>MLK Symposium web page
>>more
about Linda Brown Thompson
>>a personal perspective by Cheryl
Brown Henderson
12
A Reception with the Brown Sisters
8:30pm
Foyer, Rackham Building
915 East Washington Street
The reception will be held
in honor of Linda Brown Thompson and Cheryl
Brown Henderson, after the lecture and
discussion at Rackham Auditorium
For more information please
contact Silvia
Carranza, 734-936-1055
Sponsored by the 2004 Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. Symposium Planning
Committee, the Office
of Academic Multicultural Initiatives,
and the U-M Chapter of the NAACP.
>>MLK Symposium web page
>>more
about Linda Brown Thompson
>>a personal perspective by Cheryl
Brown Henderson
13 Critical
Conversations in Leadership
Brown v. Board of Education: Mistakes Made? Lessons Learned?
6:30pm
Bursley Residence Hall, MLK Lounge
1931 Duffield
Guest speaker: Dr. Ishmail Conway, Assistant to the Dean of Students for Special Projects
What were the policy and procedural implications of the Brown v. Board of Education decision? Join us for a lively conversation about the real legacy of this landmark decision and the leadership challenges that remain ahead of us. Sponsored by two Division of Student Affairs units: the Office of Student Activities & Leadership and University Housing Residence Education.
13 Exhibit
Opening:
“Views & Voices: U-M’s
Case for Diversity”
Main Gallery 1st Floor
Media Union
2281 Bonisteel Boulevard
(North Campus)
Exhibit dates: January 13-30, 2004; February 9-20, 2004
Exhibit hours: 12noon to 6:00pm, M-F; 1:00-5:00pm, S
This exhibit examines U-M’s controversial and complex role
in
the national debate about diversity and the recent Supreme
Court
decisions
upholding
the principle of diversity in college admissions.
Richly documented with photos and quotes from present and
past, as well as audio recordings of student views and of
the Supreme Court sessions, the exhibit describes both the
complexity of the issues and the University’s long history
of involvement.
Complex in structure and topic, the exhibit’s narrative draws
from a panorama of photos, cartoons, sketches, and quotes
to tell the story, including a photo record of events surrounding
the cases by U-M Photo Services photographer
Marcia Ledford, who traveled with the U-M legal team to Washington,
D.C.
The exhibit also looks at landmark decisions
in education around the nation and at U-M, spells out the
arguments brought to the court, and describes the decision.
Sponsored
by the Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the U-M Law
School, the Office of the Vice President for Communications,
the Office of the Vice President and General Counsel, the
Office of the Provost, the Arts of Citizenship Program, and
the Bentley Historical Library
14 Film: LaLee’s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (2001)
Film Series: “America Through the Lens of Race”
5:00pm
Michigan Theater
603 East Liberty Street
It is fitting that the film series to commemorate
the Supreme Court decision in Brown begins
with LaLee’s Kin. Released in 2001, this documentary
chronicles a black matriarch who is struggling to raise
grandchildren and great-grandchildren in the poverty
of the Mississippi Delta. The film is set against a
backdrop of the community’s failing public school and
its attempts to improve the quality of education for
local children in a community that has been undereducated
for generations.
Nominated for an
Oscar in the Best Documentary Feature category
in 2001.
Directed by Susan Frömke and Deborah Dickson with
Albert Maysles. 89 min.
The first in a series of films to be shown Wednesdays at 5:00pm at the Michigan Theater. View the full schedule of films.
Hosted by Melynda Price, J.D., Department of Political Science, and A.T. Miller, Coordinator of Multicultural Learning and Teaching, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching.
15 Symposium: “Nuestra
Educacion: The Mendez v. Westminster Case
Revisited”
4:30pm
Rackham Auditorium
915 East Washington
An interdisciplinary symposium on the landmark Mendez v.
Westminster case (1946), which ruled against the educational
segregation of Mexican-Americans and other ethnic minorities
in California. The brief for this case was instrumental
in developing the arguments leading to Brown
v. Board of Education eight years later.
A panel
featuring legal, historical, and personal viewpoints on
the case will be accompanied by a screening of the Emmy
Award-winning documentary Mendez v. Westminster: For
All the Children/Para Todos los Niños (2002), followed
by a question & answer session with the director, and
a reception hosted by the Latino Faculty & Staff Association.
Panelists include distinguished Latino/a historians, representatives from the U-M Law School, television producer Sandra Robbie from KOCE-TV, and Silvia Mendez, whose own experience of educational discrimination led to the victorious decision in the Orange County circuit court.
Sponsored by Latino Faculty & Staff Association
Latina/o Studies Program in American Culture and the Latino Law Student Association at the University of Michigan.
16 Film: The Road to Brown
7:00-8:00pm
Ann Arbor District Library
Downtown Library Multi-Purpose Room
343 South Fifth Street
This 1990 documentary film, directed by William Elwood,
is the story of segregation and the brilliant legal assault
on it, which launched the Civil Rights Movement. For more information, please call 327-4560, or visit the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads website.
16 Forum: “Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going?”
8:00pm
Michigan League
Vandenberg Room
911 North University
A forum to discuss the progress as well as the challenges surrounding Brown v. Board of Education.
Panelists:
Dr. Hanes Walton, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Marco Davis, Center for Latino Leadership National Council of La Raza,
Washington D.C.
Dr. Anna Kirkland, Women’s Studies, University of Michigan
Sponsoring organizations: Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity-Zeta Chapter,
Michigan League Programming Office
18 Panel Discussion:
“Harvest of Shame? or Harvest of Hope?”
Migrant Education after Brown v. Board of Education: A Perspective from Professionals in the Field
2:30pm
Hussey Room
Michigan League
911 North University
Panelists:
- Baldemar Velasquez, President of FLOC (Farm Labor Organizing Committee)
- John H. Dominguez, Jr., Director of the VBISD Migrant/Bi-lingual Education Program
- Emily Martinez, Coordinator of Lenawee School District Multicultural Education Resources
- Cipriano Garza, Director of Miami-Dale County Migrant Education Center and Former Advisor on Migrant Affairs to President Bill Clinton
Sponsoring Organizations: PALMA, OAMI, LTF, the English Language Institute and Michigan League Programming Office
18 Book Signing
6:00pm
Washington Street Educational Center Auditorium
500 Washington Street
Chelsea, MI
Melba Patillo Beals, author of Warriors Don't Cry, a memoir of the 1957 integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, will discuss and sign copies of her book in a community and family reading program sponsored by the Chelsea District Library, Cranesbill Books, and One World, One Family Task Force.
>>more information about Melba Patillo Beals
>>Chelsea Library website
19
Keynote Lecture: MLK Symposium
>>WATCH THE WEBCAST from the event (requires RealPlayer)
10:00am
Hill Auditorium
825 North
University
Speaker: Lani Guinier
The
17th Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. Keynote Lecture, held on Monday,
January 19, at 10:00 AM in Hill Auditorium,
will be given by Professor Lani Guinier
of Harvard Law School.
Professor Guinier,
the first African American woman to be
appointed to a tenured professorship at
Harvard Law School, will discuss the interplay
between legal and political solutions to
social justice challenges, with special
attention to the relationship between then-director
counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
(later Supreme Court Justice) Thurgood
Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Professor Guinier will also discuss the
role that education plays in our democracy
and the way in which the recent Supreme
Court decisions in the Michigan affirmative
action cases continue conversation between
lawyers, public policy officials and grassroots
activists.
>> MLK
Symposium web page
>> Visit
Lani Guinier’s web page
>>
More about Lani Guinier
Sponsored by the 2004 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium
Planning Committee and the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives.
19 Lecture:
“Health Disparities: Still Separate? Still Unequal? A Conversation with Dr. Camara Jones, MD, MPH, PhD”
11:45am
Towsley Center, Dow Auditorium
U-M Medical School
1515 East Medical Center Drive
A board-certified family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on the impacts of racism on the health on the health and well-being of American society, Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones will discuss the topic of race and the health effects of racism. She will also discuss the ways in which definitions of race and racism, while arbitrary, undermine the potential of U.S. society as a whole.
Dr. Jones is Research Director on Social Determinants of Health in the Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Black Women’s Health Project, the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association, and the Board of Directors of the American College of Epidemiology.
Sponsored by MLK Health Sciences Planning Committee,
School of Public Health, Hospitals and Health Centers, Medical School, School of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, School of Dentistry, School of Social Work
19 Lunch with Honors
12:10pm
1330 Mason Hall
505 South State Street
FREE EVENT
“Lunch with Honors” will feature Lynn Rivers,
former U.S. Representative for Ann Arbor, who was also President
of the Ann Arbor School Board during a period when the Board
was struggling with segregation issues in the Ann Arbor schools.
For more information, please contact John Cantu, 764-6274
Sponsored by College of Literature, Science, & Arts Honors Program
19 MLK
Day Lecture: “50 Years Since Brown
v. Board of Education”
2:00pm
Michigan Union Ballroom
530 South State Street
Speaker: Christopher Edley, Jr., founding
Co-Director of the Harvard Civil Rights Project, and author
of “Not All Black & White: Affirmative Action, Race, and
American Values.” A q&a session will follow the presentation.
Sponsored by the University Library
>>MLK
Symposium web page
>>More
about Christopher Edley, Jr.
>>News Release: Edley to become Dean of University of California-Berkeley Law School
19 MLK
Day Children’s Day Program
8:30am–2:00pm
Modern Languages Building
812 East Washington Street
This special MLK Day program is geared
to for children from 8-17 years of age,
and includes storytelling, music, crafts,
and lunch. Children under 8 are also welcome,
with an accompanying parent.
For more information, please see the MLK Symposium web page or contact Larry Gant, 763-5990.
Sponsored by the School of Education and
the School of Social Work.
19 “Our Stories: Reflections on Life, Community,
and Education after Brown v. Board of
Education”
4:00pm
Couzens Hall Living Room
1200 East Ann Street
530 South State Street
What impact
has Brown v. Board of Education
had on educational expectations, life,
and
the community? Join the Michigan Community
Scholars Program as we share stories
on the progress of our countries educational
system.
For more information, please contact Takisha LaShore, 763-4818
Sponsored by Michigan Learning
Communities
19 Jazz
Divas Summit
7:30pm
Hill Auditorium
825 North University
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
Three of the sexiest names in jazz hail
from Michigan, and now they finally come
together for a special performance on
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day during the
UMS Hill Auditorium Re-Opening Weekend.
Dianne Reeves, whose strong, agile voice,
rhythmic virtuosity, and improvisational
ease draws upon a world of influences,
returns to her home state.
She brings
with her Flint native and Tony Award
winner Dee Dee Bridgewater, whose career
in musical theater has paralleled her
career as a jazz singer, and Detroit
native Regina Carter, a charismatic player
who has single-handedly revived interest
in the violin as a jazz instrument.
For more information, please visit the
University Musical Society’s web page.
Sponsored by Forest Health Services,
Borders Group, Pfizer, the University
of Michigan, TIAA
CREF, WEMU (89.1), and WDET (101.9).
Made possible by the Catherine S. Arcure & Herbert
E. Sloan Endowment and the H. Gardner
Ackley Endowment. Funded in part by JazzNet.
Co-presented with the Office of Academic
Multicultural Initiatives. Media Sponsors:
Michigan Chronicle and Michigan Front
Page.
20 Film:
“Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin”
6:30-8:30pm with facilitated discussion after the movie
Ann Arbor District Library Screening Room
343 South Fifth Avenue
Acclaimed at this year’s Sundance Festival, this compelling
documentary explores the story of peace activist and civil rights
campaigner Bayard Rustin. Openly gay long before it was socially
acceptable, Rustin’s was a fearless and adept campaigner
for civil rights, taking a major role in advising Martin Luther
King on strategy in the struggles around the Rosa Parks case.
Rustin later went on to play a major part in organizing the
historic March on Washington, which galvanized the cause of
civil rights in the US.
Bayard Rustin changed history and paved the way for many others.
This timely and inspiring film celebrates his many (and hitherto
unsung) achievements.
Directed by Nancy Kates and Bennett Singer 2002 — 84 mins
Co-sponsored by the Ann
Arbor District Library, the Office
of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Affairs, and the Office
of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs
21 ”Still Separate? Still Unequal? Mobilizing Communities for Social Action”
12noon
School of Social Work, Educational Conference Center
1080 South University Avenue
Speaker: U-M alumnus Arturo Rodriguez,
President of United Farm Workers
of America, AFL-CIO.
Carrying on
the organization and strategies of
the late Cesar Chavez, Rodriguez
(MSW ’73)
will discusses strategies for community
organization and mobilization in
multicultural communities and organizations.
For more information please contact
Larry Gant, 763-5990.
Sponsored by School of Social Work
2004 MLK Symposium Planning Committee Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives, Ginsberg Center, Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations and Latino Studies
21
6th Annual MLK Luncheon and Discussion Series
“50 years since Brown v. Board of Education:
How Has Diversity in Higher Education Contributed
to Student Learning and Social Justice?”
12noon
Lurie Engineering Center
Johnson Room, 3rd floor
1221 Beal (North Campus)
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise
up and live out the true meaning of its creed:
We hold these truths to be self-evident;
that all men are created
equal” (Martin
Luther King, Jr., 1963). Join us for Part
I of the MLK luncheon and discussion series,
a showing of the documentary Campus
Diversity, Student Voices.
What does diversity mean to you? Is it central
to your education? Why or why not? Campus Diversity,
Student Voices, produced by U-M’s Dialogues
on Diversity, explores the value of diversity
in higher education by
documenting a full range of opinions on campus.
A short discussion will follow. Part II will take place
on February 10.
For more information, please contact Andrew Chandler, 647-7151. Sponsored by Tau Beta Pi, College of Engineeering
21 Lecture/Discussion: “The
Promise of Qualitative Social Research to
Unravel the Race/ Ethnicity and Poverty Relationship”
3:30-5:30pm
Henderson Room
Michigan League
Speakers:
Mario
Luis Small, Princeton University,
author of Villa
Victoria: The Transformation of Social
Capital in an Urban Barrio;
Alford
Young, Jr., University of Michigan,
author of The Minds of Marginalized
Black Men: Making Sense of Mobility,
Opportunity, and Future Life Chances;
and
John Hartigan, Jr., University
of Texas at Austin, author of Racial
Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness
in Detroit
The National Poverty Center’s
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Seminar
will feature a panel of three social
scientists, each of whom has conducted
ethnographic research within an ethnically
and racially specific poor community.
The panelists will describe their
research and discuss the ways in which
race/ethnic identity and poverty interrelate
in the communities they studied. The
panel will also include a discussant,
Ann Chih Lin of the University of Michigan,
who will address the research and policy
implications of the ethnographies.
A reception follows.
Co-sponsored by the National
Poverty Center, Ford School of
Public Policy, the
Department of Sociology, and the Center
for Afroamerican and African Studies.
21 Theme
Semester Faculty Roundtable
4:00-6:00pm
Kalamazoo Room, Michigan Union (2nd floor)
Join instructors who are
teaching courses for the Brown theme
semester. Participants will learn about
the various events taking place on and
off campus that can be integrated into
courses. We will also be discussing classroom
strategies and approaches. Visit the CRLT
website for
more information and to register for the
Roundtable.
21 Lecture: “Beyond
Diversity: Challenging Racism in an
Age of Backlash”
6:30pm
Rackham Auditorium
915 East Washington Street
Tim Wise is one of the most prominent white anti-racist voices in the United States. A social justice advocate for the past two decades, he currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute. In 2001 he received the British Diversity award for best feature essay on race and diversity issues. He is a dynamic speaker.
Sponsored by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
Mentorship, Health Science Scholars Program, Lloyd Hall Scholars Program, Residential College,Women in Science and Engineering Program, and University Housing.
>>MLK Symposium web page
22 Documentary Film: Race: the Power of an Illusion
Fridays
8:30pm
Underground (Michigan League)
911 North University
Viewing of the documentary Race: The Power of an Illusion, followed by a facilitated discussion.
Sponsoring Organizations: Zeta Sigma Chi Multicultural Sorority, Michigan League Programming Office
22 POETRY
SLAM
8:00pm
Michigan Union, University Club
530 South State Street
The U-Club Poetry Slam will be hosting a themed poetry
night honoring MLK. Our featured poet is Roger Bonair-Agard,
the 1999 National Poetry Slam Champion! There is a
$2 admission fee. For more information please contact
Karla Zinnecker, 734-763-3202
Sponsored by Michigan Union Arts & Programs
23 Lather.
Rinse. Repeat: Long Hairz Collective
Workshop
3:00pm
Room 126, East Quadrangle
701 East University Avenue
Lather. Rinse.
Repeat: Long Hairz Collective Performance
7:00pm
RC Auditorium, East Quadrangle
701 East University Avenue
Founded at the University
of Michigan, the Long Hairz Collective,
a spoken word/hip hop group, is reuniting again on campus
for the MLK Symposium. The afternoon workshop will give
the community a chance to learn how to
express
themselves through spoken
word and how to integrate this into their activism. There
will also be an evening performance by
the Collective.
For
more information please contact Stephanie
Chang, 751-9814.
Sponsored by United Asian American Organizations
Native American Student Association, Multi-Ethnic Student
Affairs, East Quad Multicultural Awareness
Committee.
>>MLK Symposium web page
23 Faculty
Book Group: Race in the College Classroom
Fridays
Jan. 23, Feb. 6, March 5 and 19
Brownlee Room, 2327 School of Education Building
Race continues to be an
important classroom dynamic even 50 years
after the historic Brown decision.
Join colleagues for discussion on essays
from the book. Participants will receive
a copy of the volume to be read. Visit
the CRLT
website for more information and
to register for the Book Group.
25 Conference: Redefining Diversity
1:00pm
Michigan League
The Redefining Diversity Conference is an opportunity for all students to become educated on minority issues. Workshop topics include: communication among minority groups, Issues of sexuality, minorities in academia, Issues of identity, and the definition of diversity. The conference, scheduled in the Michigan League from 1-7 PM, will include an icebreaker, intergroup workshops, and dialogues, and will be followed by an ethnic buffet at the Trotter House at the conclusion of the conference. Transportation will be provided.
For more information please contact Erin Johnson, 476-0369.
Sponsored by Coalition of minority/ethnic student organizations.
The Coalition includes NAACP, Minority Affiars Commission
of MSA, The Mixed Initiative, Intergroup Relations, United
Asian American Organizations, Arab Student Association,
Lebanese Student Association, Students Allied for Freedom
and Equality, Muslim Student Association, La Voz Latina,
and others.
27 Lecture/Discussion
Brown v. Board’s Legacy: The Michigan Cases and the Importance of Diversity
7:00-8:30pm
Ann Arbor District Library
Malletts Creek Branch Library
3090 East Eisenhower Parkway
In 2003, the United States
Supreme Court ruled on two admissions
cases from the University of Michigan,
affirming the right of universities
to take race into consideration in
their admissions policies to ensure
a diverse student body. U-M vice president
and general counsel Marvin Krislov
will examine the two cases, their impact,
and the issues surrounding race as
a factor in admissions.
28 Film: 4 Little Girls (1997)
Film Series: “America Through the Lens of Race”
5:00pm
Michigan Theater
603 East Liberty Street
The Brown decision was the first desegregation
case to have a direct impact on the lives
of children. But no one could have predicted
then the importance of children
as participants—and, in the 16th Street
Church in Birmingham, as martyrs—in the civil rights
movement. In his first documentary, Spike
Lee looks at the murder of four little
girls in the 1963 bombing
of a Birmingham church and the role it
played in energizing the civil rights movement.
The film shows,
through the voices of adults and children
during the civil rights movement, the intense
emotion in the African-American
community on the issue of children as activists.
When all was said and done, it was schoolchildren
of all
ages who bore the daily responsibility
of implementing the desegregation dreams
of adults. This film pays
homage to these girl children and to the
power of the political participation of children.
Directed by Spike Lee.
The second in a series of films to be shown Wednesdays
at 5:00pm at the Michigan Theater. View
the full schedule of films.
Hosted by Melynda Price, J.D., Department of Political Science, and A.T. Miller, Coordinator of Multicultural Learning and Teaching, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching.
29 Mark and Constance Jacobson Lecture
“A New Court for a New Democracy: Art, Memory, and Human Rights
Come Together in Building South Africa’s
Constitutional Court,”
4:00pm
Rackham Amphitheatre
915 East Washington Street
Speaker: Albert
L. “Albie” Sachs, Constitutional
Court Judge, South African
Constitutional
Court
Born in Johannesburg in 1935,
Sachs earned his B.A. and LL.B. degrees
from the
University of Cape Town. He started
his practice
as an Advocate at the Cape Town Bar
in 1957.
After a number of years abroad living
in England, Sachs returned to South
Africa in 1992,
where, as a member of the African
National
Congress, he took part in negotiations
for
the new constitution. He was appointed
to the Constitutional Court by President
Nelson Mandela.
He has said of his experiences: “It's
very satisfying to know that the things
that you put yourself on the line for,
the beliefs that you had, the marginalization
that you were subjected to, that in fact
that call was right. It's thrilling in
a personal sense but it gives one courage
about the world, that it is possible to
have simple, naïve beliefs in human
goodness and the capacity of people to
change and to transform their lives.” His
book, The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom
Fighter, looks back on those experiences.
29 Panel Discussion:
Weaving the Urban Fabric: A Look at Benton Harbor in Context
6:00pm
Art & Architecture Building, 2104 Lecture Hall
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard
North Campus
June 16th and 17th,2003
were two terrible days in Benton Harbor,
Michigan. The death of a black motorcyclist
after a police chase sparked two days of
civil unrest that left the city reeling
while also placing state and national
focus on its plight. This event will explore
the human relations aspect of the difficulties
facing Benton Harbor, a roughly 95%
African American city, and St. Joseph,
which is approximately 95% White, as
they try to exist and thrive side by side
despite their disparate circumstances.
A panel comprising community members from
Benton Harbor and St. Joseph as well as
academics and students who have visited
the two cities will interact in an effort
to understand and illuminate the steps
necessary to achieve the underlying goal
expressed through Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.’s actions—an improved society
predicated on improved relations among
people.
For more information please contact W. Jacarl Melton
at (734) 764-1300. Sponsored by the Urban Planning
Student Association, the Office of Academic Multicultural
Initiatives, Taubman College of Architecture and
Urban Planning, Urban and Regional Planning Program,
and the Department of Sociology.
30 Mark and Constance Jacobson
Symposium
12noon
Rackham
Assembly Hall
915 East Washington Street
Justice Albie Sachs of South
Africa will join a panel of discussants,
including Earl Lewis, Dean of the Graduate
School; David
Chambers, emeritus, law; and Karthy Govender,
law, University of Natal.
30 Ann
Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads Author Visit
7:00-8:00pm
Morris Lawrence Building
Washtenaw Community College
Speaker: Beverly Daniel Tatum
The author of "Why All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Converseations about
Race" will discuss the book and its examination of race relations. Dr. Tatum will also be signing copies of the book, which will be available for sale at the event
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FEBRUARY
3 Black History Month Keynote Presentation
“Racial Equality in America: The Journey from Brown v. Board of Education to Grutter v. Bollinger”
7:00pm
Pendleton Room
Michigan Union
530 South State Street
Speaker: Honorable Harry T. Edwards, Circuit Judge, Chief Judge Emeritus, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Chief Judge Edwards was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in February 1980 and became Chief Judge on September 15, 1994. He graduated from Cornell University in 1962 and the University of Michigan Law School in 1965. Judge Edwards practiced law in Chicago from 1965 to 1970. He was then a tenured member of the faculties at the University of Michigan Law School and at Harvard Law School.
Edwards is the co-author of four books: Labor Relations Law in the Public Sector, "The Lawyer as a Negotiator, Collective Bargaining and Labor Arbitration, and Higher Education and the Law. He has published numerous articles on labor law, equal employment opportunities, labor arbitration, higher education law, and legal ethics. His most important publication, “The Growing Disjunction Between Legal Education and the Legal Profession,” from Michigan Law Review in 1992, has been the source of extensive comment, discussion, and debate among legal scholars and practitioners in the United States.
For more information contact Robbie Townsel-Dye at 763-1452.
Sponsored by the U-M Housing Division Black History Month Committee
4 Lecture: Affirmative Action and Racial Preferences Debated by Professors Carl Cohen and James Sterba
7:00-8:30pm
Ann Arbor District Library
Downtown Library Multi-Purpose Room
343 South Fifth Avenue
U-M Professor Cohen and Notre Dame Professor Sterba are on opposite sides of affirmative action issues. They are the co-authors of a new book, Affirmative Action and Racial Preference: A Debate, and they will continue the book’s spirited debate in this live event, which will include ample opportunities for audience questions, answers, and comments.
5 Critical Conversations in Leadership:
The Road to Brown
7:00pm
Baits Housing
Thieme Lounge (Max Kade Lounge)
1230 Hubbard
North Campus
The documentary film “The Road to Brown” spans the history of Jim Crow segregation and examines the numerous legal challenges leading up to the Supreme Court’s historic civil rights ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. Special guest Dr. Ronald Woods will facilitate a discussion immediately following the film.
7 Book Discussion: “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” And Other Conversations About Race
4:00-5:00pmpm
Nicola’s Books: A Little Professor Store
Westgate Shopping Center
The Good Company African American Book Club invites all to a discussion of Beverly Tatum’s book. For more information, please call Valera Banks at 734-942-6013.
8 Sarah, Ella, & Pops
>>A CULTURE BUS EVENT
3:00pm
Wright Museum of African American History
315 East Warren
Detroit, MI
A Plowshares Theatre Company-created musical that celebrates the lives of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and the legendaryLouis Armstrong. Tickets are $11.50 (undergrads and accompanying faculty and staff) and $16.50 (grads, faculty, and staff).
Departure Time: 1:30 pm
Tickets may be ordered online, through the Arts at Michigan website (credit card payments only)…by phone at 734-763-8587 (credit card payments only)…and in person, at the Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO).
For more information on tickets, trip details, admission fees, and departure and return times, please visit the Arts at Michigan website.
Please contact Nancy Lautenbach, at nancyll@umich.edu or 734-936-5805, ASAP if you are interested in reserving a group of tickets for this or any other Culture Bus trip.
8 Critical
Conversations in Leadership
Opportunities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
6:00pm
Mosher-Jordan Residence Hall
Nikki Giovanni Lounge
200 Observatory
Speak with alums of Historically Black Colleges and Universities about the opportunities and benefits for undergraduate and graduate students at these respective institutions.
Sponsored by LSA Academic Advising in conjunction with two Division of Student Affairs units: University Housing Residence Education and Student Activities & Leadership
9 Lecture:
“The Implications of Grutter v. Bollinger: Affirmative Action in Higher Education and Beyond”
3:45pm
Hutchins Hall Room 100
Michigan Law School
625 South State Street
Discussion featuring:
- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, Professor of Law, Columbia & UCLA Law Schools
- Cynthia Estlund, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
- James Forman, Jr., Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center
- Peter Kirsanow, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and Partner, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP
Reception to follow.
For information, please contact Theodore Hebert at 615-4502, or email theohbrt@umich.edu
Sponsored by the Michigan Law School
9 Lecture: Author Debra Dickerson
7:00-8:30pm
Ypsilanti District Library
Community Meeting Room
5577 Whittaker Road
Ypsilanti, MI
Author Dickerson will share her views contained in her latest work, The End of Blackness, regarding the need for blacks to reestablish their identity. Debra Dickerson holds a JD from Harvard Law School and her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and The Village Voice.
106th Annual MLK Luncheon and Discussion Series
“50 years since Brown v. Board of Education:
How Has Diversity in Higher Education Contributed
to Student Learning and Social Justice?”
12noon
Lurie Engineering Center
Johnson Room, 3rd floor
1221 Beal (North Campus)
Part II of the luncheon/discussion. Please see January
21st for Part I information.
Why has the University
so passionately defended affirmative action
in higher education?
What has been gained, and what is left
to be gained by increasing
ethnic/racial diversity in higher education?
Panelists will discuss issues of diversity
in higher education
in the context of the 50th anniversary
of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
The audience will be
encouraged to participate in this discussion.
For more information, please contact Andrew Chandler, 647-7151. Sponsored by Tau Beta Pi, College of Engineeering
10 Lecture: Being Multi-Racial in America:
A Discussion Led by Author Elizabeth Atins Bowman and U-M Librarian Karen Downing
7:00-8:30pm
Ann Arbor District Library
Downtown Library Multi-Purpose Room
343 South Fifth Avenue
Both Bowman and Downing were raised in multi-racial families and have served to raise awareness of multi-racial issues in their professional work—Bowman through her characters in her best-selling novels and Downing through her diversity work on the U-M campus with students. Through this program, they will highlight their experiences as well as outlining important multi-racial issues for society today.
11 Film: Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back 1957-62 (1986)
Film Series: “America Through the Lens of Race”
5:00pm
Michigan Theater
603 East Liberty Street
This is the second installment of the award-winning documentary Eyes on the Prize, which chronicles America’s civil rights movement and the struggle for freedom. It is included in the film series for historical background on the legal efforts, which culminated in the 1954 decision in Brown, to end the “separate but equal” doctrine set forth in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case.
It also covers the integration of Little Rock’s Central High School and the University of Mississippi. This film makes plain the strategies employed by local organizers and the lawyers at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to dismantle barriers of Jim Crow. Please see
the March 24 listing for a showing of another
episode of
Eyes on the Prize.
Directed by Henry Hampton.
The third in a series of films to be shown Wednesdays
at 5:00pm at the Michigan Theater. View
the full schedule of films.
Hosted by Melynda Price, J.D., Department of Political Science, and A.T. Miller, Coordinator of Multicultural Learning and Teaching, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching.
12
School Desegregation in the 20th Century:
The Long Shadow of Little Rock
7:30 pm
Rackham Auditorium
915 East Washington Street
WATCH THE WEBCAST>>
Featuring Ernest Green. One of the “Little Rock Nine,” Green became the first black student to graduate from Central High School, in 1958. He went on to receive a degree from Michigan State University and later served as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs under President Jimmy Carter. Green is currently is a managing partner and vice president of Lehman Brothers in Washington, D.C.
Green is the oldest of the Little Rock Nine, a group of high school students who entered Central High School on the morning of September 25, 1957, with an escort of paratroopers. Governor Orval Faubus had summoned National Guardsmen to turn away the black pupils in direct defiance of the federal government, which had already approved a desegregation plan for the school. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, for the first time since Reconstruction, sent in federal troops to protect the rights of the beleaguered students, and the students ultimately prevailed.
A discussion on the turbulent history and challenging history of school desegregation follows Green’s presentation, with Lester Monts, U-M Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs; Waldo Martin, Professor of History, University of California - Berkeley; and U-M doctoral students Ayesha Ki’Shani Hardison and L’Heureux Lewis.
>>More about Ernest Green
12 “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” And Other Conversations About Race
7:00-8:30pm
Ann Arbor Friends Meeting House, fireplace room
1420 Hill Street
All are invited to a discussion of Beverly Tatum’s book. Registration is required: please call Sheila Johnson at 761-9582 for more information or to register.
16Film:
Ruby Bridges
7:00pm
Ypsilanti District Library
5577 Whittaker Road
Ypsilanti
This well-conceived made-for-television Disney movie brings the pain and difficulty of desgregation to life fo a generatin of kids to whom the 1960s is ancient history, This family event is appropriate for ages 7 and older
17 “Why
Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”
A Student Perspective-Panel Discussion
with Local Middle and High School
Students
7:00-8:30pm
Ann Arbor District Library
Downtown Library Multi-Purpose Room
343 South Fifth Avenue
This program, co-sponsored by the Michigan Chapter of the National Association for Multi-Cultural Education, will feature high school and middle school students from the Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and Detroit areas discussing what race relations are really like for students in today’s schools. There will be ample opportunity for audience questions and answers.
17 Book
Discussion: “Why
Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together
in the Cafeteria?” and Other Conversations
about Race
7:00-8:00pm
Ann Arbor Open School
Multi-Purpose Room
School Media Center
920 Miller Road
All are invited to a discussion
of Tatum's book.
Registration is required. To register, call the school office at 994-1910.
18Lecture:
Racial Profiling and Law Enforcement: Discussion
led by Dr. Kenneth Brown
7:00-8:30pm
Downtown Library Multi-Purpose Room
343 South Fifth Avenue
Dr. Brown will discuss the complex challenges facing the community and law enforcement officers on the issue of racial profiling. Communities want law enforcement officers to stop potential crimes before they are committed but that expectation is complicated by many considerations, including the U.S. Constitution. This controversial and timely program will examine the how's and whys of racial profiling—as well as its effect on the community and citizens at large.
22Community Forum: “Why is Sunday the Most Segregated Day of the Week?”
4:00pm
First Unitarian Universalist Church
4001 Ann Arbor-Saline Road
Speaker: Claude Jacobs, Ph.D
Dr. Jacobs, Director of the Pluralism Project at University of Michigan/Dearborn, will lead the community forum. Refreshments and complimentary childcare will be provided.
23Book Discussion: "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" And Other Conversations About Race
1:00-2:30pm
Jewish Community Center of Washtenaw County
2935 Birch Hollow Drive
David Schoem, Faculty Director of the Michigan Community Scholars Program at the U-M leads a discussion of the Tatum book. All are invited to attend.
24 Book
Discussion: "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting
Together in the Cafeteria?" And Other Conversations
About Race
7:00-9:00pm
Ann Arbor Friends Meeting House, fireplace
room
1420 Hill Street
All are invited
to a discussion of Tatum's book. Registration is required; please call Sheila Johnson at 761-9582 for more information or to register.
25Book
Discussion: "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting
Together in the Cafeteria?" And Other Conversations
About Race
7:00-8:00pm
Ann Arbor District Library
Downtown Library Multi-Purpose Room
343 South Fifth Avenue
Join us for an open discussion of the book that is the focus of this year’s Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads. This discussion, led by library staff and members of the Michigan Chapter of the National Association for Multi-Cultural Education, will examine Tatum's book and its implications for race relations today.
27Book
Discussion: "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting
Together in the Cafeteria?" And Other Conversations
About Race
7:00-9:00pm
Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tea Room
114 South Main Street
The Crazy Wisdom Reading Circle invites all to a discussion of Tatum’s book.
For more information, please call 665-2757.
28Book
Discussion: "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting
Together in the Cafeteria?" And Other Conversations
About Race
2:00-3:00pm
Barnes & Noble Bookstore
3235 Washtenaw Avenue
All are invited to a discussion of Tatum’s book.
For more information, please call 973-1618.
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MARCH
1 A Conversation with Joe Dulin
7:00-8:30pm
Ypsilanti District Library
5577 Whittaker Road
Ypsilanti
Joe Dulin of Roberto Clemente School, and founder of National African American Parent Involvement Day (NAAPID), will speak about African Americans and public education.
For more information, please call 879-1303.
3 Film: Imitation of Life (1934)
Film Series: “America Through the Lens of Race”
5:00pm
Michigan Theater
603 East Liberty Street
The original Hollywood treatment of the novel by Fannie
Hurst, which examines the identity of race. This film and the 1959 remake (to be shown March 10) present compelling and contrasting portrayals of the story of two single mothers, one white and one black, who join forces to achieve success, and whose daughters struggle with their identities. Central are the issues of “passing” along with the patterns of white public success built on African American labor.
Starring Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers.
Please also see March
10 listing for information on the 1959
remake with Lana Turner.
Directed by John M. Stahl. 125 min.
The fourth in a series of films to be shown Wednesdays
at 5:00pm at the Michigan Theater. View
the full schedule of films.
Hosted by Melynda Price, J.D., Department of Political Science, and A.T. Miller, Coordinator of Multicultural Learning and Teaching, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching.
6 Youth Event: I am Special!
7:00-8:30pm
Ypsilanti District Library
5577 Whittaker Road
Ypsilanti
Share who you are—inside and out—activities designed to inspire pride. Children will work on self-portraits or “me maps” as they explore, highlight, and celebrate the special qualities that make them unique.
For more information, please call 879-1303.
6Dance Theatre of Harlem
>>A CULTURE BUS EVENT
2:00pm
Detroit Opera House
1526 Broadway
Detroit, MI
Dance Theatre of Harlem is well known for the use of multiple dance forms including classical ballet, modern dance styles such as jazz, tap, and social dance, and ethnic dance traditions from around the world. Tickets are $12 (undergrads and accompanying faculty and staff) and $22 (grads, faculty, and staff).
Departure Time: 12:30 pm
Tickets may be ordered online, through the Arts at Michigan website (credit card payments only)…by phone at 734-763-8587 (credit card payments only)…and in person, at the Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO).
For more information on tickets, trip details, admission fees, and departure and return times, please visit the Arts at Michigan website.
Please contact Nancy Lautenbach, at nancyll@umich.edu or 734-936-5805, ASAP if you are interested in reserving a group of tickets for this or any other Culture Bus trip.
9 On-Campus Book Discussion
Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads
3:00-4:00pm
Anderson Room, 1st Floor
Michigan Union
530 South State Street
The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) cordially invites University faculty, graduate students, staff, and interested members of the community to discuss “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race” by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D., U-M alumna and President of Spelman College. These will be small-group, moderated discussions. Please register by sending an e-mail to crlt@umich.edu. The book is available at the Ann Arbor District Library and the Ypsilanti Public Library and is also being offered for a discounted price at several local bookstores.
For more information, please contact Erin Rosenberg at 936-0641
Sponsored by the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
9
Panel Discussion: Multi-cultural Identities and the Classroom: Teachers Speak Out
7:00-8:30pm
Ann Arbor District Library
Downtown Library Multi-Purpose Room
343 South Fifth Avenue
A panel of local teachers and teacher educators from the Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and Detroit area discuss race relations in today’s schools and offer their first-hand, candid viewpoints. This program is co-sponsored by the Michigan Chapter of the National Association for Multi-Cultural Education.
10
Critical Conversations in Leadership
Brown v. Board of Education: Mistakes Made? Lessons Learned?
6:30pm
South Quadrangle Residence Hall
African-American Lounge
600 East Madison
Guest speaker: Prof. Kim Forde-Mazrui, Visiting Professor, Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
What were the policy and procedural implications of the Brown v. Board of Education decision? Join us for a lively conversation about the real legacy of this landmark decision and the leadership challenges that remain ahead of us. Sponsored by two Division of Student Affairs units: the Office of Student Activities & Leadership and University Housing Residence Education.
10 Film: Imitation of Life (1959)
Film Series: “America Through the Lens of Race”
5:00pm
Michigan Theater
603 East Liberty Street
The 1959 remake of a film about friendship and racial
identity. A Hollywood classic, starring
Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, and Sandra
Dee.
Directed by Douglas Sirk. 125 min.
The fifth in a series of films to be shown Wednesdays
at 5:00pm at the Michigan Theater. View
the full schedule of films.
Hosted by Melynda Price, J.D., Department of Political Science, and A.T. Miller, Coordinator of Multicultural Learning and Teaching, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching.
10
Panel Discussion:
Gems of Blues and Jazz: Alberta Adams, Alma Smith, and Louis Smith
7:00-8:30pm
Ann Arbor District Library
Downtown Library Multi-Purpose Room
343 South Fifth Avenue
Three of the finest local blues and jazz musicians discuss how racism influenced their performing and recording careers. Bebop trumpeter Louis Smith, zazz pianist/vocalist Alma Smith, and blues singer Alberta Adams all discuss how their talent, pride, and sense of humor helped them forge successful lives in the music business despite many obstacles.
For more information, please call 327-4560
10 “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” And Other Conversations About Race
7:00-9:00pm
Ann Arbor Friends Meeting House, fireplace room
1420 Hill Street
All are invited to a discussion of Beverly Tatum’s book. Registration is required: please call Sheila Johnson at 761-9582 for more information or to register.
11
Film: EYES ON THE PRIZE: American Civil Rights Year Series Parts 1 & 2
6:30-9:30pm
Room 1804
School of Social Work Building
1080 South University
Professor Michael Reisch and the Association of Black Social Work Students will be
hosting a movie series every week during March (Social Work Month) in Room
1804, School of Social Work.
This week we will be showing EYES ON THE PRIZE: American Civil Rights
Year Series, Parts 1 & 2.
Part 1: Awakenings (1954-1956):
Looks at events in post-World War II American history that led to the modern
black freedom struggle; depicts Southern race relations in the years prior to
1954; and illustrates patterns of racial discrimination that prevailed at the
beginning of the Civil Rights Movements’ activities. Tells the story of two
events that helped to focus the nation’s attention on the rights of black
Americans to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness: the 1955 lynching in
Mississippi of 14-year-old Emmett Till and the 1955-56 Montgomery, Alabama
boycott that forced the desegration of public buses.
Part 2: Fighting Back 1957-1962:
Examines the law both as a tool for change and resistance to change,
particularly as it relates to education. Covers the court cases of the late
1940s that led to the 1954 Supreme Court Brown v Board of Education decision,
the stories of nine black teenagers who integrated Little Rock’s Central High
School in 1957, and James Meredith’s 1962 enrollment in the University of
Mississippi.
Refreshments will be provided and a discussion will follow.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME!!
13Play: Yellowman
>>A CULTURE BUS EVENT
3:00pm
Detroit Repertory Theatre
13103 Woodrow Wilson
Detroit, MI
A play that tells the tale of Alma, a dark-skinned
African-American woman, and her childhood friend
Eugene, a light-skinned African-American man,
growing up together, yearning to escape the South.
Tickets are $7 (undergrads and accompanying faculty
and staff) and $11 (grads, faculty, and staff)
Departure Time: 1:30 pm
Tickets may be ordered online, through the Arts at Michigan website (credit card payments only)…by phone at 734-763-8587 (credit card payments only)…and in person, at the Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO).
For more information on tickets, trip details, admission fees, and departure and return times, please visit the Arts at Michigan website.
16 Book Discussion:
“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together…”
7:00pm-8:00pm
Ann Arbor District Library
Malletts Creek Branch
3090 East Eisenhower Parkway
Join us for an open discussion of the book that is the focus of this year’s Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads. This discussion, led by library staff and members of the Michigan Chapter of the National Association for Multi-Cultural Education, will examine Tatum’s book and its implications for race relations today.
16 “A Civil Rights Journey” featuring Dr. Sonnie Hereford III
8:00pm
Michigan League Underground
911 North University
Meet the leader of one of the most successful civil right protests
in Alabama history. Dr. Hereford, along with the Community
Services Commission, sued the Huntsville School Board on
behalf of his son and four other students resulting in the first
desegregated school in Alabama history in 1963.
Dr. Hereford employed psychological tactics, and nonviolent,
peaceful protests, to get his messages across to those against
desegregation. As a result of these efforts, Alabamians had
access to integrated public spaces such as restaurants and
shopping malls.
“A Civil Rights Journey” is Dr. Hereford’s documentary. It
chronicles the civil rights movement in Huntsville, Alabama from
1962–1963 as seen through his own camera lens. The
documentary will be followed by a Q&A session with this true
Alabama hero.
Refreshments will be provided.
For additional information contact: Ernesto Mejia, Program Coordinator, Dialogues On Diversity.
This event is being brought to you by Dialogues on Diversity, The Michigan League Programming Office,
Michigan Community Scholars Program, The Office of the Provost, and the Notre Dame Alumni group of Ann Arbor
17 Book Discussion:
“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together…”
7:00pm-8:30pm
Bethlehem United Church of christ
423 South 4th Avenue
For more information, please contact Sue Wortman at 971-2718
18 Book Discussion:
“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together…”
12noon
School of Nursing, Room 2184
400 North Ingalls
Facilitated by E. Ruth Jordan, Director of Student Support Services, Ypsilanti School District. Book discussion of the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads book by Beverly Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race.
For more information, please contact the Office of Multicultural Affairs, or email Melita Pope-Mitchell at popem@umich.edu.
Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs
18 Critical
Conversations in Leadership
“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together…”
8:00pm
East Quadrangle Residence Hall
Benziger Library
701 East University
Beverly Tatum’s Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race is the 2004 Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads book. Join us for a discussion of the various issues the explored in the book, from the individuals’ racial identity development to racial interactions in America.
Sponsored by two Division of Student Affairs units: University Housing Residence Education and Student Activities & Leadership.
24
Lecture/Discussion: The Watsons Go to Birmingham and Other Stories
3:15-4:30pm
Residential College Auditorium
East Quadrangle
701 East University Avenue
Speaker: Christopher Paul Curtis
Children’s author Christopher Paul Curtis will discuss his award-winning book, The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963 and issues related to racism in subsequent books, including the Newbery award-winning Bud Not Buddy and his forthcoming novel for adults.
Born and educated in Flint, Michigan, Curtis spent the first 13 years after high school at Flint’s Fisher Body Plant where he began writing during 30-minute breaks off the assembly line. With grandfathers like Earl “Lefty” Lewis, a Negro Baseball League Pitcher, and Herman E. Curtis, Sr., 1930s bandleader of “Herman Curtis and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression,” Curtis knew he was destined to become an entertainer. While attending University of Michigan–Flint, he won both the Avery Hopwood for major essays and the Jules Hopwood Prize for an early draft of The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963. This funny and deeply affecting children's book was awarded both a 1996 Newbery Medal and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Listed as “Best Book of 1995” by The New York Times Book Review, Curtis’ debut novel about a quirky and appealing African-American family from Flint mixes autobiographical fiction with historical fact in its powerful re-telling of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
Sponsored by the Residential College with support from
the King-Chavez Parks Visiting Professors Program,
the Brown v. Board Commemoration Committee, the School
of
Education, Greenhills School, Summers-Knoll Middle
School, the Barbara Isenberg Fund at the RC, and others. Free and open to the public. For
more information, please contact Elizabeth Goodenough
at
647-4349.
24 Film: Eyes on the Prize: The Keys to the Kingdom, 1974-80 (1986)
Film Series: “America Through the Lens of Race”
5:00pm
Michigan Theater
603 East Liberty Street
This documentary is from the second series of “Eyes on the Prize” and covers the years 1974-1980, when it became obvious that large segments of U.S. society had reached their limits in terms of what strategies would be accepted to achieve racial equality. The school busing crisis in Boston is examined as well as the strong affirmative action measures taken in constructing the Atlanta airport. This film is an important reminder of how much U.S. society has backed away from the 1970s efforts at trying to make racial equality a reality. As we look at the extensive progress since Brown v. Board, we are also confronted with the factors that have prevented that progress from going further.
Directed by Jacqueline Shearer and Paul Stekler. 57 min.
The sixth in a series of films to be shown Wednesdays at 5:00pm at the Michigan Theater. View the full schedule of films.
Hosted
by Melynda Price, J.D., Department
of Political Science, and A.T. Miller, Coordinator
of Multicultural Learning
and Teaching, Center for Research on
Learning and Teaching.
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School Desegregation in the 21st Century:
Fulfilling the Promise of Brown
7:30pm
Rackham Auditorium
915 East Washington Street
With Gary Orfield, Co-Director
of the Harvard Civil Rights Project, and
Beverly Tatum, President of Spelman College
and
author of “Why Are All the Black
Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
And Other Conversations About Race,” the
2004 Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads book.
>>More about Gary Orfield
>>NEW! Read Professor Orfield’s research: Brown at 50: King’s Dream or Plessy’s Nightmare?
>>More about Beverly Tatum
31 Lecture by Glenn Loury, Ph.D.: “Color-Blind Affirmative Action”
4:00-5:30pm
Kuenzel Room
Michigan Union
530 South State Street
Dr. Loury is University Professor and Professor of Economics at Boston
University, and the author of The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (2002), published by Harvard University Press, and of numerous other
books and articles. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
>>More about Glenn Loury
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APRIL
1 Nancy
Cantor Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual
Diversity:
“The Effect of Negative Stereotyping on Academic Performance”
10:00am
Hussey Room, Michigan League
911 North University Avenue
Speaker: Claude Steele
Professor Claude Steele, distinguished
social scientist and professor of Psychology at Stanford
University, will deliver the Nancy Cantor Distinguished
Lecture on Intellectual Diversity this
academic year.
Dr. Steele, formerly a member of the
U-M Psychology Department, has conducted
research on whether prejudice and stereotyping
can affect the
performance of minority groups and women in academic settings.
His expert testimony provided on behalf
of the University in the affirmative
action cases describes
factors that might cause African American, Hispanic, and
Native American students to perform less
well than other groups on college aptitude
tests.
The Nancy Cantor Distinguished Lectureship,
administered by the Office of the Provost
for Academic Affairs in collaboration
with the Provost’s Faculty Committee
on Education for a Diverse Democracy,
honors our former provost’s legacy
by bringing prominent national
figures to campus to stimulate discourse on diversity in
higher education.
7 Film: To Sleep with Anger (1990)
Film Series: “America Through the Lens of Race”
5:00pm
Michigan Theater
603 East Liberty Street
This feature film starring Danny Glover presents a middle class African-American family in California with an older generation in danger of being a bit too haunted by a past in the segregated south, and a younger generation in danger of forgetting what got them to the present. It is Danny Glover’s personal favorite among his roles, and was directed by Charles Burnett, often hailed as the greatest living African American filmmaker. This film works on many levels of both story and symbol in a beautiful production with powerful acting and draws deeply and lovingly on cultural heritage while keeping a contemporary tone. The power of memory and the past, the importance of family and community, and the double-edged consequences of each are explored in this must-see film. As the final film in the series, it also invites us towards continued consideration of the social impact of Brown v. Board and the experiences of U.S. society.
Written and directed by Charles Burnett. 102 min.
The last in a series of films to be shown Wednesdays
at 5:00pm at the Michigan Theater. View
the full schedule of films.
Hosted by Melynda Price, J.D., Department of Political Science, and A.T. Miller, Coordinator of Multicultural Learning and Teaching, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching.
15 Student Research Symposium
3:00pm–5:00pm
Haven Hall
Ballroom, First Floor
505 South State Street
Undergraduate and graduate student research in the Brown v. Board of Education Theme Semester classes will be presented in a multimedia symposium. Featured projects include: audio documentaries on the history of African Americans in radio broadcasting; urban planning maps of school busing and trends in residential segregation in southeast Michigan cities; videos of student service-learning work on developing an independent media center for youth in a Detroit community; and an oral history of Jones School, the elementary school that served as a community resource to Ann Arbor’s African-American community until it was closed in a 1965 district-wide integration plan.
The event is a capstone to faculty and student work in classes during the Brown v. Board of Education Theme Semester. A reception with remarks by LSA Dean Terrence J. McDonald and Senior Vice Provost Lester Monts begins at 4:00pm.
17Museum Day: The Grand Rapids Museum of Art and the Frederick Meijer Gardens
Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South 1862-1999
>>A CULTURE BUS EVENT
9:00am departure time
Grand Rapids, MI
Tickets are $10 (undergrads and accompanying faculty and staff) and $12.50 (grads, faculty, and staff)
Departure Time: 1:30 pm
Tickets may be ordered online, through the Arts at Michigan website (credit card payments only)…by phone at 734-763-8587 (credit card payments only)…and in person, at the Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO).
For more information on tickets, trip details, admission fees, and departure and return times, please visit the Arts at Michigan website.
22–25 First
Annual Ann Arbor Book Festival
Thursday evening through Sunday
morning
North University and State Street, and area bookstores
The inaugural Ann Arbor Book Festival kicks off Thursday, April 22 and runs through Sunday, April 25, 2004. Book lovers young and old will find many diverse activities to explore, including author readings and book signings by local and national authors; workshops for all ages including writing, bookmaking, and songwriting; panel discussions featuring authors, editors, publishers, and other luminaries; and a book arts pavilion.
The Brown v. Board Stage features Derrick Bell, author of Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Ed and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform; Evelyn Hu-DeHart and other contributors to The Unfinished Agenda of Brown v. Board of Education; and Nancy Cantor, Patricia Y. Gurin, and Earl Lewis, authors of Defending Diversity: Michigan's Affirmative Action Cases. The Brown stage will be held on Saturday, April 24, 10:00am-6:00pm, in the Modern Languages Building, Lecture Room 1.
Also participating in the Book Festival are Michael
Eric Dyson, author of Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves, And Demons Of Marvin Gaye; and Melba Joyce Boyd, Wrestling with the Muse, Dudley Randall and Broadside Press.
The Festival will be held at the corner of North University Avenue and State Street.
For more on the Brown v. Board of Education stage, visit the Brown page of the Festival website>>
Visit the Ann Arbor Book Festival website main page>>
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MAY
7
School of Education Conference: Brown v.
Board 1954-2004: School Integration and K-12
Education
1:00-5:00pm
Whitney Auditorium
Room 1309
School of Education
610 East University Avenue
Keynote speaker: Theodore M. Shaw, Associate
Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund. Discussion Panel
convened by Charles D. Moody, Sr., former
Superintendent of Schools in Harvey, Illinois;
Director of the U-M Program on Educational
Opportunity; and Vice Provost for Minority
Affairs at U-M from 1987-92.
Panelists include Ira Rutherford, retired
Superintendent, Beecher Community Schools,
Michigan; Dallas Daniels, Indiana Department
of Education; Cynthia Kelly, Coordinator
of Staff Development, Minneapolis Public
Schools; Sue Todey, retired Director of
Student Services, Green Bay Public Schools,
Wisconsin; Phyllis Benjamin, School Improvement
Coach, Cleveland, Ohio.
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more about Theodore M. Shaw
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more
about Charles D. Moody
View the webcast of Ted Shaw’s lecture >>
8
School of Education Conference: Brown v.
Board 1954-2004: School Integration and K-12
Education
A Workshop for Educators: “Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy”
Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Urban Education, Emory University
9:00-11:30am
Whitney Auditorium
Room 1309
School of Education
610 East University Avenue
One of the most trenchant areas of concern among educators and researchers is the academic achievement gap. Some have argued that eliminating it is as critical as voter registration was a generation ago. This workshop, led by one of the foremost authorities in the field, will examine school factors associated with the achievement gap, as well as present possible solutions that focus on instructional quality and the implementation of culturally responsive pedagogyin classrooms.
Professor Irvine’s specialization is in multicultural education and urban teacher education, particularly the education of African American students. Her books include “Black Students and School Failure,” “Culturally Responsive Lesson Planning for Elementary and Middle Grades,” and “In Search of Wholeness: African American Teachers and Their Culturally Specific Pedagogy.” For more information on Prof. Irvine, visit her web page.
Hear Dr. Irvine’s
lecture live! Begins Saturday, May 8,
at 9:00am. Click here to view
the webcast… >>
17 Provost’s
Seminar on Multicultural Teaching:
“Multicultural Teaching in a Contested World.”
9:00am–3:15pm
Michigan League
911 North University Avenue
Please note: Open to faculty only. Registration required.
Faculty are invited to participate in the next Provost’s Seminar on Teaching entitled “Multicultural Teaching in a Contested World.” This Seminar will be held on Monday, May 17th, beginning at 9:00am and ending at 3:15pm. Continental breakfast will be available starting at 8:30 a.m.
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The Provost’s Seminars, which are held twice a year, promote lively and substantive dialogues about a wide range of teaching and learning issues that are relevant campus-wide. This spring’s Seminar, to be held on the date of the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board decision, will focus on multicultural teaching methods that are effective for fostering inclusiveness within the current social and political context.
Sessions will feature national and U-M faculty expertise, interactive theatre, and open discussions that generate ideas, examine various models, and share challenges and successes in a variety of disciplines and teaching environments. The Seminar builds, in part, on U-M’s important leadership on diversity, and on the desire to expand and build capacity for the type of education we successfully defended before the Supreme Court last year.
Please see CRLT’s
website for more information.
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