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Center for Multicultural Education In this Issue: Message from the Coordinator Page 1 Black History Month Icon Page 2 Women’s History Month Icon Page 3 SPRING 2016 ISSUE Asian/Pacific Islander Month Icon Page 4 Message from the Coordinator My name is Latoya Fitzpatrick, and I am the Coordinator in the Center for Multicultural Education here at Missouri Western State University. We are thrilled to have you be a part of our campus & STAFF: community. I wanted to give you an overview of the Center for Multicultural Education. We are here to Latoya Fitzpatrick serve you by maintaining an open door policy, assisting Coordinator you in finding campus resources to help you be successful, supporting and advising student groups, and encouraging student involvement Alexis Williams and leadership opportunities. We strive to educate students through Program Assistant programming, community involvement, and educational workshops. We recognize our students come from diverse backgrounds, which help to Dana Heldenbrand enhance the educational experience of all students on our campus. We Administrative Coordinator invite all students to connect with our office through an office visit, a phone call, social media interactions, or an email. For further questions or information, stop by the Center for CONTACT INFORMATION: Multicultural Education on the second floor of the Nelle Blum Union, Room 210. I can be reached by phone at (816) 271-4150 or via email at Center for [email protected]. Our hours of operation are Monday – Friday Multicultural Education from 8:00 am until 4:30 pm. I have also included a brochure to provide Nelle Blum Student Union 210 you further information about our department. (816) 271-4150 Sincerely, [email protected] Latoya Fitzpatrick www.facebook.com/cme.mwsu Twitter: @mwsu_cme Instagram: @mwsu_cme Black History Month Icon: Ida B. Wells-Barnett Born a slave in 1862, This injustice led Ida B. Wells Spring 2016 Ida Bell Wells was the to write about issues of race Upcoming Events oldest daughter of James and politics in the South. and Lizzie Wells. The Using the moniker “Iola,” a Jan. 19: MLK Information Table, 11am, Wells family, as well as number of her articles were Blum Union the rest of the slaves of published in black newspapers Jan. 20: MLK Banquet, 6pm, the Confederate states, and periodicals. Wells Enright 214-216 were decreed free by the eventually became an owner of Union, about six months the Memphis Free Speech and Jan. 21: “Selma, Lord, Selma” movie, 6pm after Ida’s birth, thanks Headlight, and, later, of the Spratt 101 to the Emancipation Free Speech. Jan. 22: MLK Week Candlelight Vigil, 7pm, Proclamation. However, Kelley Commons living in Mississippi as In 1892, three African- Jan. 26: Meet the World, 4pm, African Americans, they faced racial American men—Tom Moss, Calvin Blum 218-219 prejudices and were restricted by McDowell and Will Stewart—set discriminatory rules and practices. up a grocery store in Memphis. One Feb. 1: “Because of Them We Can” Photo night, Moss and the others guarded Shoot, 5pm, Blum 222-223 Ida B. Wells’s parents were active in the their store against attack and ended up Feb. 3: Comfort Food Wednesday, Republican Party during Reconstruction. shooting several of the white vandals. 11am-1pm, Blum Union Cafeteria Her father, James, was involved with They were arrested and brought to jail, Feb. 9: Charles Drew Blood Drive, the Freedman’s Aid Society and helped but they didn’t have a chance to defend 11am-5pm, Blum 218-219 start Shaw University, a school for the themselves against the charges—a lynch newly freed slaves (now Rust College) mob took them from their cells and Feb. 10: Intercultural Intimate Relationships, and served on the first board of trustees. murdered them. These brutal killings 4pm, 218-219 It was there that Ida B. Wells received incensed Wells, leading to her write Feb. 10: Rudy Currence in Concert, 7pm, her early schooling, but she had to articles decrying the lynching of her Spratt 101 drop out at the age of 16, when tragedy friend and the wrongful deaths of other Feb. 18: Global Hot Topic Series, 4pm, struck her family. Both of her parents African Americans. Spratt 203 and one of her siblings died in a yellow fever outbreak, leaving Wells to care Working on behalf of all women, Feb. 19: Tim Wise at UMKC, 9am-2pm, for her other siblings. Ever resourceful, Wells, as part of her work with the *Transportation provided* she convinced a nearby country school National Equal Rights League, called Feb. 23: Black Heritage Ball, 6pm, administrator that she was 18, and for President Woodrow Wilson to put Blum 218-219 landed a job as a teacher. an end to discriminatory hiring practices Mar. 8: “The Mask You Live In,” 6pm, for government jobs. She created the Blum 218-219 In 1882, Wells moved with her sisters first African-American kindergarten to Memphis, Tennessee, to live with in her community and fought for Mar. 9: Stiletto Stomp, 7pm, Blum 218-219 an aunt. On one fateful train ride from women’s suffrage. In 1930, Wells Mar. 10: Girls Rock, 7pm, Blum 218-219 Memphis to Nashville, in May 1884, made an unsuccessful bid for the state Wells reached a personal turning point. senate. Health problems plagued her Apr. 6: Safe Zone Training, 2pm-5pm, Having bought a first-class train ticket the following year. Ida B. Wells died of Blum 222-223 to Nashville, she was outraged when kidney disease on March 25, 1931, at the Apr. 12: Confronting Insensitive Language & the train crew ordered her to move to age of 69, in Chicago, Illinois. Comments, 6pm, Blum 222-223 the car for African Americans, and April 24: Praise Dance Festival, 4:30pm, refused on principle. As she was forcibly Taken from: http://www.biography.com/ Spratt 101 removed from the train, she bit one of people/ida-b-wells-9527635 the men on the hand. Wells sued the April 26: Stand Against Racism: Charlene railroad, winning a $500 settlement in a Carruthers, 7pm, Spratt 101 circuit court case. However, the decision May 3: Multicultural Graduate Dinner, was later overturned by the Tennessee 5:30pm, Enright 214-216 Supreme Court. 22 2016 Religious & Women’s History Month Icon: Cultural Calendar Oprah Winfrey Jan. 1: Kwanzaa (Cultural Celebration) Oprah Gail Winfrey was ideal weight of around 150 Jan. 1: New Year’s Day (Holiday) born on January 29, 1954, pounds) and competed in the Jan. 5: Birth of Guru Gobind Singh (Sikh) in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Marine Corps Marathon in Jan. 6: Epiphany (Christian) After a troubled Washington, D.C., in 1995. Jan. 7: Feast of Nativity (Christian) adolescence in a small Jan. 15: Makar Sankranti (Hindu) Jan. 16: Religious Freedom Day (Celebration) farming community, With the debut in 1999 of Jan. 17: World Religion Day (Celebration) where she was sexually Oxygen Media, a company Jan. 18: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Celebration) abused by a number she co-founded that is Jan. 24-27: Mahayana New Year (Buddhist) of male relatives and dedicated to producing cable Jan. 24-25: Tu B’Shvat (Jewish) friends of her mother, and Internet programming for All February: Black History Month (Cultural Vernita, she moved to women, Winfrey ensured her Celebration) Nashville to live with place in the forefront of the Feb. 2: Candlemas (Christian) her father, Vernon, a media industry and as one of Feb. 5-10: Carnival (Cultural Celebration) barber and businessman. She entered the most powerful and wealthy people Feb. 8: Lunar New Year (Cultural Celebration) Tennessee State University in 1971 and in show business. Her highly successful Feb. 8: Mana Shivaratri (Hindu) began working in radio and television monthly, O: The Oprah Magazine debuted Feb. 9: Shrove Tuesday (Christian) broadcasting. in 2000. Feb. 10: Ash Wednesday (Christian) Feb. 15: Parinirvana/Nirvana Day (Buddhist) In 1976, Oprah Winfrey moved to In 2009, Oprah Winfrey announced Feb. 23: Purim Katan (Jewish) Baltimore, Maryland, where she hosted that she would be ending her program All March: Women’s History Month (Cultural the TV chat show People Are Talking. when her contract with ABC ended, Celebration) The show became a hit and Winfrey in 2011. Soon after, she moved to Mar. 15: Rama Navami (Hindu) stayed with it for eight years, after which her own network, the Oprah Winfrey Mar. 17: St. Patrick’s Day (Cultural Celebration) she was recruited by a Chicago TV Network, a joint venture with Discovery Mar. 20: Palm Sunday (Christian) station to host her own morning show, Communications. Mar. 23: Ta’anit Esther/Fast of Esther (Jewish) A.M. Chicago. Within several months, Mar. 23: Holi (Hindu) Mar. 23: Magha Puja/Sangha Day (Buddhist) Winfrey’s open, warm-hearted personal In 1994, President Clinton signed a bill Mar. 24: Hola Mohalla (Sikh) style had taken her show from last place into law that Winfrey had proposed to Mar. 24: Purim (Jewish) to first in the ratings. Her success led to Congress, creating a nationwide database Mar. 24: Maundy Thursday (Christian) nationwide fame and a role in Steven of convicted child abusers. She also Mar. 25: Annunciation (Christian) Spielberg’s 1985 film The Color Purple, founded the Family for Better Lives Mar. 25: Shushan Purim (Jewish) for which she was nominated for an foundation. In September 2002, Oprah Mar. 25: Good Friday (Christian) Academy Award for Best Supporting was named the first recipient of the Mar. 27: Easter (Christian) Actress. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Apr. 8: Ugadi/Yugadi (Hindu) Bob Hope Humanitarian Award. Apr. 8: Hana Matsuri (Buddhist) Winfrey launched the Oprah Winfrey Apr. 8: Hindu New Year (Hindu) Show in 1986 as a nationally syndicated Winfrey campaigned for Democratic Apr.