The Black Chicago History Forum
SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING (subject to change)
Contact numbers - creed@roosevelt.edu; (312) 480-0337
(May, 2010 through November 2010)
Saturday unless noted otherwise
| Date | Site | Event |
|---|---|---|
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May 1, 2010 12: 00 Noon |
3647 S. State Street Chicago Bee Branch Chicago Public Library |
DISCUSSION GROUP: "Banking and Businesses
in the Old Black Metropolis of the 1920s, and beyond" Lead discussant: Robert Howard, author of "Black Banking in Early Chicago" |
|
May 8, 2010 12:00 Noon |
Hall Branch Chicago Public Library 4801 S. Michigan Ave |
DISCUSSION GROUP: "Popular Thinking and Critical Thought And The Role of the Hall Library" Lead discussant: Christopher R. Reed, author of Twentieth Century Black Chicago, 1900-1940 |
|
May 22, 2010 12:00 Noon |
Jacob Carruthers Center Center for Inner City Studies Northeastern Illinois University 700 E. Oakwood Blvd. |
DISCUSSION GROUP: "Communities, Neighborhoods And Public Celebrations" Lead discussants: Anderson Thompson, Useni Eugene Perkins, Sharon Harley (invited) |
|
May 29, 2010 12:00 Noon |
Hall Branch Chicago Public Library 4801 S. Michigan Ave |
DISCUSSION GROUP: "Education and Curriculum on Black Chicago" Lead discussants: Jacqueline Williams, Patricia Bearden, Janice Harley (invited) |
|
June 5, 2010 12:00 Noon |
Quinn Chapel AME Church 2401 S. Wabash Ave. Parking available in a fenced lot |
LECTURE: Christopher R. Reed, "Researching and Writing the History of Black Chicago in the 19th and 20th Centuries" |
| June 12, 2010 12:00 Noon | Dr. King Boys & Girls Club 2950 W. Washington Blvd. Plenty of on the street parking | DISCUSSION GROUP: History of the Old West Side -- Near West, East Garfield Park, Lawndale/Douglas Park |
| June 19, 2010 12:00 Noon |
Old Supreme Insurance Bldg. Bronzeville Tourism Center 35th & King Drive 2nd Floor, enter on 1st floor Ample parking in rear and across 35th street in the plaza parking lot |
PANEL: Lionel Kimble, "Labor, Housing and Civil Rights in Post-WWII Chicago" and Theresa Pfister, "Irene McCoy Gaines: Civic Leader" (proposed) |
|
June 26, 2010 12:00 Noon |
430 S. Michigan Ave Congress Lounge Roosevelt University |
DISCUSSION GROUP: "Toe-tappin' and Merriment Along 47th Street" Lead discussants: Tim Black, Charles V. Hamilton, Wheeler Cole, (invited) |
|
July TBA, 2010 12:00 Noon |
Northeastern Illinois University 700 E. Oakwood Blvd. Jacob Carruthers Center Center for Inner City Studies |
DISCUSSION GROUP: "Black Politics and Governance Before
Harold Washington" Lead discussants: Robert Starks, Charles Branham, Barbara Holt (Invited) |
| September 26, 2010 | Harold Washington Library Center |
Vivian G. Harsh Society to honor James D. Montgomery at Timuel D. Black, Jr. Fund Benefit Event |
| October | TBA | |
| November 28, 2010 | Hall Library Branch |
LECTURE: Robert Weems, University of Missouri at Columbia, "Exemplary Chicago Businessman Anthony Overton" |