[Listed] Calendar of Events View Brown Events on the Web at: http://will.uiuc.edu/community/beyondbrown/brownarchives.htm September, 2003 *University Library Exhibit, Main Library First Floor Hallway -- "Separate and Unequal: Segregation and Three Generations of Black Response, 1870-1950." This exhibit highlights the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896, which legally sanctioned racial segregation in the United States until 1954 when the Supreme Court overturned Plessy in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. Materials from the Library's collections and archives highlight the historical period between these two landmark civil rights cases. For more information contact Betsy Kruger at: [email protected] September 17 Reading Brown: Walt Harrington, author of Crossing: A White Man's Journey Into Black America. Noon at the YMCA. Streaming for this event is available at: http://will.uiuc.edu/community/brownarchives.htm September 18 Community Sing with Ysaye Barnwell, of the internationally acclaimed vocal quintet Sweet Honey in the Rock, will be teaching music from the African American tradition. Musical forms may include calls, chants, spirituals, ring shouts, hymns, gospels, songs of resistance from the Civil Rights and other freedom movements, and contemporary songs. Her visit is in conjunction with performances by Sweet Honey in the Rock at Krannert Center on 9/19 and 9/20. Ysaye Barnwell has performed with the internationally acclaimed a cappella quintet, Sweet Honey In The Rock since 1979. She appears as a vocalist (and/or instrumentalist) on more than twenty-five recordings with Sweet Honey as well as with other artists. She has worked as a commissioned composer on numerous and varied projects, all outgrowths of her understanding of creative arts as inextricably bound to society. Barnwell holds a doctorate in Speech Pathology, has post-doctoral experience in Public Health, and has administered D.C.-based community health projects in computer technology and the arts. Sweet Honey in the Rock is a Grammy Award-winning African American female a cappella ensemble with deep musical roots in the sacred music of the black church - spirituals, hymns, gospel - as well as jazz and blues. The Sweet Honey experience is like no other. Five African American women join their powerful voices, along with hand percussion instruments, to create a blend of lyrics, movement and narrative that variously relate history, point the finger at injustice, encourage activism, and sing the praises of love. The quintet, whose words are simultaneously interpreted in uniquely expressive American Sign Language, demands a just and humane world for all. 7:00 pm in the Main Lounge of Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory, Urbana. Free and Open to the Public. Parking is available in the parking garage across the street. September 25 The GWS Film Series: Girlfight dir. Karyn Kusama; starring Michelle Rodriguez, Jaime Tirelli, Santiago Douglas, Paul Calderon (110 min.). Rodriguez plays Diana, a streetwise Brooklyn teen who finds an outlet for her violent impulses in the sport of boxing. Diana takes on Latin machismo and a disapproving father, but she fights her most difficult battle with her own conflicting passions when she competes in a title bout against a young male boxer who also happens to be her boyfriend. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Film at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. The GWS film series is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor as part of the 2003-04 Brown Jubilee Commemoration. Rm 62 Krannert Art Museum, 5:30 pm September 28 Film showing of "Separate But Equal", starring Sidney Poitier as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. "In telling the detailed story of the Supreme Court's 1953 decision to abolish racial segregation in schools, this superb 1991 TV movie covers a broad specturm of issues, never taking its "eyes off the prize" while its first-rate cast conveys the importance of the Supreme Court's ultimately unanimous decision." (Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com) Virginia Theatre, 7:00 pm.Ticket price is $5.00. The News-Gazette Film Series is a fund raising project and proceeds go to the restoration efforts of the theatre. September 29 Juan Williams will appear live on "Focus 580 with David Inge" on WILL-AM 580 on at 11:00 am . Listeners are encouraged to call-in and ask questions of Mr. Williams. Mr.. Williams' appearance on WILL AM will be encoded on the WILL Website (will.uiuc.edu) under the special Brown v. Board section for on-demand listening/viewing. September 29 Juan Williams, Brown v Board Inaugural Event: "Thurgood Marshall - An American Revolutionary" Juan Williams is the author of the non-fiction bestseller Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 and the biography Thurgood Marshall-An American Revolutionary. Williams is also a long-time commentator for National Public Radio and political news analyst for Fox News Network. Foellinger Auditorium, 7:00 p.m. Mr.. Williams' appearance on at Foellinger will be encoded on the WILL Website (will.uiuc.edu) under the special Brown v. Board section for on-demand listening/viewing. September 30 Jaime Escalante, “Ganas: Creating the Desire to Learn,” a remarkable man—a high school teacher whose students, underprivileged and Hispanic, have set standards in mathematics all but unequaled in American education. Escalante taught math and physics in Bolivia for 11 years until 1964, when he immigrated to the U.S. After receiving an AA degree in electronics, he worked with Burroughs Corporation, and in 1974 became a math teacher for Garfield High School. In 1999, he was officially inducted into the Teachers Hall of Fame. His fascinating, unforgettable and inspirational story gives a vivid picture of genius in the teaching profession that has caused Mr. Escalante to be the subject of both a book entitled Escalante: The best teacher in America and a movie entitled Stand and Deliver, one of 1988’s most acclaimed films. Sponsored by Impacto in collaboration with the Illini Union Board (Latino Programs Committee), Illinois Leadership? Center, University Housing, Chancellor’s Office through the Brown v Board Initiative, Department of Mathematics, Department of Spanish, College of Education, the Department of Anthropology and Cargill. 7:00 PM Smith Hall Auditorium. October October 2 Reading Brown: Peter Irons, author of Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision. Noon at the YMCA. Now - October 3 Peter Irons, Unit One/Allen Hall Guest-in-Residence. He will be speaking at Allen Hall each night of his residency. See below for his schedule. All programs are open to the public and take place in the Main Lounge of Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory, Urbana. Parking is available in the parking garage across the street after 5pm. Call 333-8351 for more information or check out our website: http://www.housing.uiuc.edu/living/unit1 Peter Irons is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego and Director of the Earl Warren Bill of Rights Project. Professor Irons is the author of six books on the Supreme Court and constitutional litigation and has contributed to numerous law reviews and other journals. He is a practicing civil rights and liberties attorney and was lead counsel in the 1980's in the successful effort to reverse the World War II criminal convictions of Japanese- Americans who challenged the curfew and relocation orders. He was also elected to two terms on the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union. His award winning books include Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision, and A People's History of the Supreme Court. Irons visit is co-sponsored by the Chancellor's Brown v Board of Education Commemoration Committee, the Campus Honors Program and Residential Life. Schedule: • Monday, September 29, 8:00pm - Opening Program: "Both Sides of the Law: From Prison Bars to the Supreme Court Bar" • Tuesday, September 30, 7:00pm - "Civil Liberties and the War on Terrorism" 9:00pm - "The Supreme Court: Should Un-Elected Judges Decide Our Rights?" • Wednesday, October 1, 7:00pm - "Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision" • Thursday, October 2, 7:00pm - "America's Concentration Camps: Lessons From the Japanese American Internment of World War Two" October 8 Film showing of THE AMASONG CHORUS: SINGING OUT, a new documentary by Jay Rosenstein will have its Champaign-Urbana premiere on Wed., Oct. 8th at 7:00 pm in the Beckman Auditorium. Special guest speaker will be Chancellor Nancy Cantor. The event is co- sponsored by the Brown v.Board committee, the College of Communications, and WILL-TV. A second, pulbic showing of the film will follow at 9:00 pm.. October 9 The GWS Film Series: Run Like A Girl 1998, dir. Carol Cassidy (57 min.). Girls participating in rugby, synchronized swimming, and double-dutch jump rope tell how sports have given them the strength to thrive under the pressures of growing up. They discuss their feelings of liberation within the strict regimen of competitive sports, their search for identity and self-esteem while revolting against the stereotypes, their encounters with the pressures of body image and eating disorders, and the importance of mothers and coaches as mentors. The GWS film series is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor as part of the 2003- 04 Brown Jubilee Commemoration. Rm 192 Lincoln Hall, 5:30 pm October 9, Eyes on the Prize Television Documentary on the American Civil Rights Movement 1957- 1962. College of Law Auditorium 6-8 p.m. This is the first of many events The Black Law Students Association (BLSA) will sponsor commemorating this landmark decision.