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Policing Racial Violence
Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Chicago History Museum
1601 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614 (Map)View CAN-TV's video recording of this event.
Participate in a conversation about law enforcement and the nature of racial violence from 1919 to the present.In 1919, what role did the police play in calming the riots, or fueling them? How did various communities view the police in 1919? What has changed today?
Participants will engage with historic news articles from the Chicago Defender and the Chicago Tribune, as well as more recent accounts of violence in Chicago.
Schedule
6:00 pm Pre-Program- Chicago History Museum archival materials on display with archivists Julie Wroblewski and Hannah Zuber, and librarians Gretchen Neidhardt, Lesley Martin, and Elizabeth McKinley
- "Red Summer of 1919" photo essay with assistant curator Julius L. Jones
Welcome: Charles E. Bethea, Andrew W. Mellon Director of Collections and Curatorial Affairs, Chicago History Museum
Panel Discussion
- Simon Balto, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Iowa and author of Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power.
- Andrew J. Clarno, Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Robin Robinson, Director of Restorative Justice at the Chicago Police Department and a former Chicago news anchor.
- Moderated by Nancy Villafranca, Elizabeth F. Cheney Director of Education, Chicago History Museum
- Led by CHM staff