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Queens College
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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 and February 2008 pages which include a variety of related resources. Click on each image above and below for a larger version.
The College's Black
History Month Committee is pleased to present the following events this year 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.
February is officially
designated as Black History Month. There are a variety of officially proclaimed
months, weeks, days where we have added opportunities to learn about the
history, culture, holidays, traditions and contributions of groups other than
whatever our own might be. Many of these overlap. Programs, courses
and exhibits abound here at
Our nation has just reached an exciting and promising milestone - the
election on November 4, 2008 of Barack Obama as President of the
Through our Black History Month 2009 events, we hope to explore together
- building coalitions
- the long road to this point
- the context in which this has occurred
- what still needs to be done.
We have
included in the schedule below not only events planned by our Black History
Month Committee. We have also
included related campus and local events announced and planned for around the same time.
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). Photo of watching the inauguration in the Agora also by S.Lefkoe. 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
Schedule of Events - February 2009
Daily Schedule (Tentative)
ONGOING
- Louis
Armstrong House Museum -
- Lewis Latimer
House Museum –
- Queens
Borough Public Library Events – entire system
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Mark Levy and Professor Bayne-Smith, Urban Studies
Location: The DOME
Time: 12 noon -- 2 pm
CLIQ Event
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Forebears & Progressivism - (lecture)
Professor Julmisse; Africana Studies
Location: Rosenthal Library - President's Conference Room #2
Time: 12 noon -- 2 pm
CLIQ Event
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Monday February 9 |
Political Forerunners to Obama: "Chisolm '72, Unbought & Unbossed" - (film)
Moderated by Professor Nadasen, History Department
The DOME
CLIQ Event
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We Rocked the Boat; Youth & The Obama Victory
Student Panel
Location: Student Union - BALLROOM EAST
CLIQ Event
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Related Program
Details
at http://www.qc.cuny.edu/nis/Releases/viewNews.php?id=351
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Related Program
About the Lewis Latimer and the
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Does Barack
Obama's Election Mean We Live in a Post-Racial
Screening of "The Black Agenda and 2008 Election" & discussion
Dr. Lassana Harris; Social Psychologist, NYU
Location: The DOME
CLIQ Event
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Exactly Which Americans Elected Obama?
Joel Benenson; Lead Pollster and Strategist for Barack Obama Campaign
Location: Rosenthal Library - President's Conference Room #2
CLIQ Event
Related Event
Women’s Studies Colloquium: Heading North: Jewish Teenager in the Harlem Civil Rights Movement
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (Comparative Literature)
President’s Conference Room 1, Rosenthal Library
Time: 12:15-2 pm
CLIQ Event
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Sarah Haile
Mariam and Maria Kirby
Location: President's Conference Room #2
CLIQ Event
Identities at War No
More: Black And American?
Dr. Stephen Steinberg; Urban Studies and Dr. Andrew Hacker; Political Science
Location: Dining Hall - PATIO ROOM
CLIQ Event
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Jewish People / Rabbi Samuel and Ruth Geffen Memorial Lecture
QC Campus Mininstries, Hillel, Alpha Epsilon Pi
Program Announcement
Location: SU 206
Time: 12:15 pm -1:30 pm
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Related Event --- included even though it
is after the end of Black History Month
Women,
The Virginia Frese Palmer Annual Women’s Studies Conference / Women's History Month March 2009
see http://qcpages.qc.edu/ws/events.html