[Peace] Fwd: FW: Melba Beals public lecture for BvB calendar

[Alfred Kagan]

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>Date:         Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:22:53 -0600
>Reply-To: Betsy Kruger <betsyk at UIUC.EDU>
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>From: Betsy Kruger <betsyk at UIUC.EDU>
>Subject: FW: Melba Beals public lecture for BvB calendar
>To: LIBNEWS-L at LISTSERV.UIUC.EDU
>
>Subject: FW: Melba Beals public lecture for BvB calendar
>
>  Below is a new Brown v Board event that you might want to add to 
>your calendar.  For up-to-date information on Brown v Board 
>activities remember to check out the website often:  
><>www.oc.uiuc.edu/brown
>
>
>March 1 Public Lecture by Melba Patillo Beals, author of Warriors 
>Don't Cry:A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock 
>Central High School (1994) and its sequel, White is a State of Mind: 
>Freedom is Yours to Choose (1999).  In September 1957, Melba Patillo 
>found herself and eight other black teenagers facing angrymobs as 
>they tried to enter the all-white Central High School to enact 
>SupremeCourt ordered desegregation. They spent the year attending 
>school amidst harassment, violence, and threats. For their courage 
>andself-sacrifice, the Little Rock Nine received America's top 
>civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal.  A former television 
>reporter, Beals is a dynamic, inspirational, andhumorous speaker.  7 
>p.m. Illini Union Ballroom.


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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu
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