An Afternoon with Dick Gregory: Remembering and Preserving the 1960-1965 Civil Rights Movement…
A Luta Continua / The Struggle Continues “An Afternoon with Dick Gregory: Remembering and Preserving the 1960-1965 Civil Rights Movement in Chicago”
Chicago SNCC History Project, 1960 -1965
Join The DuSable Museum for the official opening of the Chicago SNCC History Project Oral History and Video Archive in The DuSable Community Gallery. It is the anniversary of the first Chicago School Boycott; October 22, 1963, against the then superintendent of schools, Benjamin Willis and his racist and segregationist school policies such as the use of the infamous Willis Wagons.”
This event and exhibition is a collaboration between two major institutions in the African American communities, The DuSable Museum of African History and Carter G. Woodson Public Library.
Exhibition
The exhibit will feature some of the memorabilia of the era that we have collected. However, its focus will be an inter-active one with continuous showings of the oral history interviews that we have collected and the ability for people to tell their own stories of involvement with the Chicago and Southern Movement. Our objective continues to be according to SNCC principles, to include the stories of ordinary people, not just leaders, who made their own individual contribution to the movement.
Program
The program will include Mildred Forman Page and Sylvia Fischer, two members of our committee who have been involved with the organization since its inception, interviewing, our special guest, Dick Gregory about how he became involved with and worked with Chicago Area Friends of SNCCC (CAFSNCC). There will be a special tribute to the late Lawrence Landry, one of the co-chairs of CAFSNCC, by a former Chicagoan, who was very involved in the Chicago Movement and now the director of African American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. It will also feature the SNCC Freedom Singers performing and explaining the role of music in the Civil Rights Movement. Given that this project was conceived as a way of preserving the legacy of the movement for today’s youth, we will also show some of the interviews conducted by the high school students in our after school program and hopefully have those students present.
For more information and to reserve your seat, please visit http://chicagosncc.org or call Pat Lucas at (847) 674 0307.
