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This web site was initiated in January 2005 by the Black History Month Committee of Queens College. See also our archived February 2005, February 2006, and February 2007, February 2008, February 2009 and February 2010 pages which include a variety of related resources. Click on each image above for a larger version.
The College's Black
History Month Committee is pleased to present the following programs as
food for reflection and thought. The programs that we design each year
for Black History Month are specifically * not * designed "For Black Students
Only." They are designed for all members of the College community. We hope
these programs and events will help foster within the campus community a better
understanding of people and events of the time, of each other, and of how it
all relates to our lives today.
The images at the top of this page are of our Benjamin S.
Rosenthal Library's Chaney-Goodman-Schwerner Clock
Tower (photo by S. Lefkoe), and of the
Chaney-Goodman-Schwerner Clock Tower dedication
plaque (photo by J. Castellan). Click on each for larger images. More information about this may be found in our February 2005 archived
pages. The plaque is in the Rosenthal Library entry foyer, near the Books
and Bytes Cafe. The text on the clock tower dedication plaque is as follows:
THEY DIED FOR OUR FREEDOM
IN THE SUMMER OF 1964,
JOINED THE
VOTER REGISTRATION WITH
JAMES EARL CHANEY AND MICHAEL SCHWERNER.
RETURNING FROM A VISIT
TO A RURAL CHURCH, THEY WERE KIDNAPPED AND MURDERED.
THEIR DEATHS INSPIRED
COUNTLESS OTHERS TO CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE
FOR EQUALITY AND
JUSTICE FOR ALL AMERICANS.
Dedicated on May 10,
1989
Looking Backward, Moving Forward
Schedule of Events - February 2011
Daily Schedule (Tentative)
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Documentary Film: Eyes on the Prize - No Easy Walk 1961-1963 --- Remembering The Civil Rights Movement and Its Leaders
Narrated by Julian Bond
Free Hour - 12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Campbell Dome .
Cliq Event
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Campbell Dome
Cliq Event
A comparative analysis of emotional responses to the plight of African American Women as expressed through literature and poetry from the past to the present .
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5 p.m. -7pm
Rosenthal Library Auditorium Room 230
Free and Open to the Public
Distinguished guest speaker Honorable Julian Bond
Cliq Event for students
Civil rights leader Julian Bond will speak at Queens College about the legacy of the civil rights movement and its lessons for today's world. This event celebrates the recent acquisition by the Queens College Civil Rights Archive of the personal library of civil rights leader James Forman (1928-2005). The James Forman Library is comprised of thousands of books and pamphlets as well as many audio and videotapes.
Julian Bond was one of the founders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. From 1998 to 2010, he served as chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Earlier he served in the Georgia General Assembly for two decades.
Bond and Forman worked closely together in SNCC and Bond has written that "Forman is one of the under-appreciated figures of the modern civil rights movement. His autobiography, The Making of Black Revolutionaries, is a classic," and credits Forman as having had an “enormous influence” on him personally, SNCC, and the whole civil rights movement. Julian Bond and James Forman were both early, long-time, and important leaders in shaping the struggle for social justice in the United States.
Co-sponsored by the Africana Studies Program, Special Collections & Archives of the Queens College Libraries, the SEEK Program, and a growing number of student organizations.
For more information contact Africana Studies (718-997-2845) or Special Collections & Archives (718-997-3650).
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Documentary Film: " The End of Poverty?" Think Again .
Rosenthal Library room 230
Moderator: Professor: Francois Pierre-Louis, Ph.D, of the Political Sciences Department
Cliq Event
With so much wealth in the World why is there still so much poverty? A thought provoking and very timely documentary by award-winning filmmaker, Philippe Diaz, revealing that poverty is not an accident.
Thursday February 24 |
Cliq Event
Horn is a journey into the sadness that lie behind a smile, even one as large as Louis Armstrong. This behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's greatest entertainers explores what a man wants when he has everything.