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Historical and current perspectives on the African American legacy at the University of Chicago.

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    • Oct 20, 2014 LATEST EPISODE
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    Timuel Black: ‘I’m not ready to go anywhere yet’

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2014 0:51


    If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. At age 95, Timuel Black, AM’54, believes his work to carry on the dream of Martin Luther King Jr. is far from over.

    Timuel Black: Working with Martin Luther King Jr.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2014 1:37


    If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Timuel Black, AM’54, helped organize Freedom Trains, filled with thousands of Chicagoans, who heard Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C.

    Timuel Black: Cheating death during World War II

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2014 1:43


    If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Timuel Black, AM’54, remembers how “the flip of a coin” may have saved him from death on the beaches of Normandy—and how his mother’s words helped him endure the horrors of World War II.

    Timuel Black: Growing up in Chicago’s “Black Belt”

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2014 1:55


    If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Timuel Black, AM’54, recalls how growing up in the “Black Belt” on the South Side of Chicago was like growing up “in a city within a city.”

    Timuel Black: World War II spurred career in civil rights

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2014 1:31


    If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Timuel Black, AM’54, remembers how visiting the Buchenwald concentration camp evoked memories of his enslaved ancestors and cast his career on a path toward ensuring equal rights for all.

    The 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2013 70:31


    If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, delivers the 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture, in honor of the late George E. Kent, who was one of the earliest tenured African American professors at the University of Chicago. The Annual George E. Kent Lecture is organized and sponsored by the Organization of Black Students, the Black Student Law Association, and the Students for a Free Society.

    The 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture (audio)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2013 70:35


    If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, delivers the 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture, in honor of the late George E. Kent, who was one of the earliest tenured African American professors at the University of Chicago. The Annual George E. Kent Lecture is organized and sponsored by the Organization of Black Students, the Black Student Law Association, and the Students for a Free Society.

    University of Chicago Faculty Roundtable Panel

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2010 78:09


    If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Historical and current perspectives on the African American legacy at the University of Chicago.

    Crescat Scientia:Vita Excolatur: The Early Education of African Americans at the University of Chicago and its Legacy

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2010 70:28


    If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Historical and current perspectives on the African American legacy at the University of Chicago.

    Chicago is the Known City

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2010 58:30


    If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Historical and current perspectives on the African American legacy at the University of Chicago.

    Undergraduate and Graduate Student Panel

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2010 100:42


    If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Historical and current perspectives on the African American legacy at the University of Chicago.

    The First Cadre: Black Social Science at the University of Chicago before the Great Migration

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2010 39:50


    If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Historical and current perspectives on the African American legacy at the University of Chicago.

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