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BLACK HISTORY MONTH
EVENTS 2010
- Throughout February 2010
St. Louis Public Library
Various events including music, movies, food, poetry, book discussions, and more
- Friday, February 19, 2010 at 7:30 pm
at Powell Symphony Hall
Lift Every Voice: Black History Month Celebration
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra with the Saint Louis Symphony IN UNISON® Chorus, Robert Ray, conductor;
featured vocalists Marlissa Hudson and Jermaine Smith, and the Innervision Dance Theatre.
Selections by Scott Joplin, George Gershwin, and traditional spirituals
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Here's the most recent playlist for the Dr. Martin Luther King special on
Lotsa A Cappella on KDHX:
Dr. King Special 2010 
photo: poster of Dr. King at Delmonico's Restaurant
"We must develop and maintain a sense of dignity and self respect. We must not allow anybody or anything to make us feel that we do not
count. We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful; we must walk the streets everyday
with this sense of dignity and this sense of self respect..."
"If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian
love, the historians will have to pause and say, 'There lived a great people - A Black People - who injected new meaning and dignity into
the veins of civilization.' This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility."
- Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.
January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968
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Bob Herbert's column:
To Those Who Paved The Way...I Wish You Were Here
Megar Evers' widow and great-nieces:
on Obama inauguration (CBS News)
photo: "His Dream - Our Dream"
- statue of Dr. King in Fountain Park, St. Louis, Missouri
The King Institute includes audio and video of Dr. King's speeches
Tavis Smiley's Striving for the Dream: 1968-2008
Time 100: Profile of Dr. King
The Seattle Times: Dr. King and the civil rights movement
American Civil Rights
Wikipedia has a good overview. For a history of the civil rights movement in the USA from 1896-1954, click here.
For civil rights history since 1954, click here.
Rosa Parks
February 4, 1913 - October 25, 2005
Rosa Parks: an appreciation by Rev. Jesse Jackson
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Smithsonian Folkways label:
"Sing For Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs", a 70-minute CD of field recordings from
Montgomery, Birmingham, Albany GA, Atlanta, Greenwood MS, and Nashville during the early 1960s; and "Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966",
a double CD including songs recorded at mass meetings and many recordings of the SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) Freedom Singers and other ensembles.
The booklet, written by Bernice Johnson Reagon
(SNCC Freedom Singers, Sweet Honey In The Rock) includes
photographs and a history of the Civil Rights movement.
The King Center
Medgar Evers
July 2, 1925 - June 12, 1963
Fannie Lou Hamer
October 6, 1917 - March 14, 1977
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Pops Staples & the Staple Singers
Sweet Honey In The Rock
Steve Biko, South African martyr
December 18, 1946 - September 12, 1977
Nelson Mandela, South African leader
July 18, 1918 -
Mandela congratulates Obama
photo: "I have a dream..."
(another view in Fountain Park)
Be strong and have courage. Be strong and have courage in the face of injustice. Be strong and have courage in the face of prejudice and hatred. Be strong and have courage in the face of joblessness and helplessness and hopelessness. Be strong and have courage, in the face of our doubts and fears, in the face of skepticism, in the face of cynicism, in the face of a mighty river. Be strong and have courage and let us cross over to that Promised Land together.
~ Senator Barack Obama, Speech at Howard University, September 28, 2007
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