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'63 Boycott
Saturday, June 1, 2019, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Harold Washington Library, Pritzker Auditorium
400 South State Street, Chicago, IL 60605 (Map)Join the second part of this two-part program: a screening of the film ’63 Boycott, from the award-winning documentary house Kartemquin Films. The 30-minute film combines previously unseen archival 16mm footage of the 1963 Chicago Schools Boycott with participants’ reflections today.
The boycott was one of the largest northern civil rights demonstrations of the 1960s, connecting contemporary issues around race, education, school closings, and youth activism. The film visually communicates the legacies of 1919 and also underscores an alternative to violence: a boycott and a highly organized march.
Speakers and Facilitators
The film will be followed by a conversation with two of the film’s producers, Rachel Dickson and Gordon Quinn, with special guest Rosie Simpson, a union organizer and CPS parent who was a key player in the 1963 Boycott, and who appears in the film. Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since the 1960s, will moderate.Key Program Organizers
Karen Christianson, Director of Public Engagement, The Newberry LibraryElizabeth Cummings, Public Programs Manager, The Newberry Library
D. Bradford Hunt, Vice President for Research and Academic Programs, The Newberry Library
Liesl Olson, Director of Chicago Studies, The Newberry Library
Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago