Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Lessons from the '63 Boycott

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Lessons from the '63 Boycott:

Lessons from the '63 Boycott

 Rachel Dickson
Tim Horsburgh
Kartemquin Films
63boycott@kartemquin.com
773-472-4366/ 773-656-8939 (cell)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
On the 50th anniversary of the 1963 school boycott, activists from then and now will talk about one of Chicago's largest civil rights marches at a screening of in-progress documentary '63 Boycott.

Lessons from the 1963 Boycott:
The Struggle for Quality Education in Chicago Then and Now
Tuesday, October 22, 6-8p.m., Free, open to the public
The DuSable Musuem of African American History- 740 East 56th Place
Register at 63boycott.eventbrite.com


Join us on October 22nd, the 50th anniversary of the 1963 Boycott of Chicago Public Schools, when an estimated 250,000 Chicagoans – mostly CPS students – protested segregation and inequality. The evening features a screening of in-progress documentary '63 Boycott from Kartemquin Films (The Interrupters), a panel discussion with education activists from then and now, and a spoken word performance by Malcolm London of Young Chicago Authors. The panel includes Rosie Simpson and Fannie Rushing, organizers of the 1963 Boycott; Elizabeth Todd, an historian at University of Illinois in Chicago; Karen Lewis of the Chicago Teachers Union; and a student from the Chicago Student Union.

There will also be an interactive teach-in organized by the Chicago Teachers Union Black Caucus and Education for Liberation Network with a screening of a short clip from the film and a chance to talk with boycott organizers and participants in a series of small group