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Brown vs. Board of Education Jubilee Commemoration
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Reading
Brown - Leon Dash, author of Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family
in Urban AmericaApril 14, 2004, University YMCA
Intro
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Dee Brown and the Depictions of Native Americans
March 4, 2004, Champaign City Council Chambers
Speakers: Robert G. Hays, author of A Race at Bay; Valeri
Sherer Mathes, professor of history at City College of San
Francisco, and author of several books on the history of Native
Americans; and John Sanchez, Assistant Professor of journalism at
Penn State University, a Yaqui Apache Native American and expert
on Native American cultures and issues. Co-sponsored by the
Champaign Human Relations Commission. The panel discussion was
televised live on City of Champaign Cable Access Channel 5, who
generously granted WILL permission to make available this
RealVideo archive.
RealVideo
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Reading Brown: James Anderson, author of The Education of
Blacks in the South, 1860-1935
February 12th, 2004, University YMCA
Introduction
(2 minutes)
James
Anderson talk (14 minutes)
Audience
Q & A (24 minutes) |
American Apartheid and the Supreme Court: Understanding the
Significance of the Brown Decision, Professor Paul Finkelman,
Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa
College of Law
February 12th, 2004, Levis Faculty Center
Intro
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Reading
Brown: Leon Dash, author of When Children Want Children
November 19th, 2003, University YMCA
Introduction
(4 minutes)
Leon
Dash talk (54 minutes)
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Minority
Representation and Dealing with Diversity in U.S. and Illinois
Agriculture, Dr. Blannie E. Bowen, Professor and Head,
Department of Agricultural and Extension Education, and C. Lee
Rumberger and Family Chair, The Pennsylvania State University November 12th, 2003, Monsanto Conference Center of ACES
Library, Information and Alumni Center
Introduction
(7 minutes)
Blannie
Bowen talk (37 minutes)
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The
Contributions of African-Americans to U.S. and Illinois
Agriculture: A Public Discussion
November 11th, 2003, Monsanto Conference Center of ACES
Library, Information and Alumni Center
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Blannie
Bowen talk (45 minutes)
Audience
Q & A (27 minutes)
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Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois,
1965-1975, Joy Ann Williamson, assistant professor of education,
at Stanford University
October
16th, 2003, University YMCA
Introduction by Jim Anderson, Professor of Educational Policy
Studies, University of Illinois
Introduction
(3 minutes)
Joy
Ann Williamson talk (23 minutes)
Audience
Q & A
(28 minutes)
Joy
Ann Williamson interview on WILL-AM's Afternoon Magazine,
October 17, 2003
(45 minutes)
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Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown
Decision, a talk by Peter Irons, professor of political science,
University of California at San Diego
October 2nd,
2003, University YMCA
Introduction
by Tom Ulen, Professor of Law, University of Illinois (6
minutes, 46 seconds)
listen
to the talk (32 minutes))
Audience
Q and A (24 minutes)
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Thurgood Marshall: American
Revolutionary, a talk by Juan Williams, senior
correspondent, National Public Radio
September
29th,
2003, Foellinger Auditorium
Introductions by Nancy Cantor,
Chancellor; and James Anderson, Professor of Educational Policy
Studies, University of Illinois
(10 minutes)
listen
to the talk (50 minutes)
Audience
Q and A (21 minutes)
Juan
Williams interview on WILL-AM's Focus 580, September 29th, 2003
(50 minutes)
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Crossing: A White Man's Journey Into Black America,
a talk by Walt Harrington, professor of journalism, College of
Communications, University of Illinois
September
17th,
2003, University YMCA
listen
to the talk (39 minutes)
Audience
Q and A (16 minutes)
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