Graphics from Jett Sett Graphics
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)
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Dream Continues...
Young Obama Supporters
Photo by "kids4obama"
I know there are many -- Muslim and non-Muslim -- who question whether we can forge this new beginning. Some are eager to stoke the flames of division, and to stand in the way of progress. Some suggest that it isn't worth the effort -- that we are fated to disagree, and civilizations are doomed to clash. Many more are simply skeptical that real change can occur. There's so much fear, so much mistrust that has built up over the years. But if we choose to be bound by the past, we will never move forward. And I want to particularly say this to young people of every faith, in every country -- you, more than anyone, have the ability to reimagine the world, to remake this world.
All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort -- a sustained effort -- to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.
~ President Barack Obama, On A New Beginning, June 4, 2009, Cairo University
Barack Obama speaks under the Arch, October 18, 2008
Photo by Adam
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