UnCommon Core: Inquiry & Insights with Adam Green - Remembering, Celebrating, and Learning from the Life of Timuel Black
Timuel Black, AM’54, was a revered member of the Hyde Park community and a steadfast advocate and leader for Black Americans. But he was not just a community service icon; he was an educator, author, and historian. He was active in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, most notably participating in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Chicago Freedom Movement during 1965 and 1966. Tim was part of a coalition of Black Chicagoans who worked to elect Chicago’s first African American mayor, Harold Washington, in 1983, and he mentored a young Barack Obama, the future US president, on building a political base on Chicago’s South Side. Join Adam Green, associate professor of American history and the College and the co–faculty director of the Chicago section of the Obama Presidential Oral History Project, in a conversation about Tim’s legacy. How can we look inward and reflect on our own thoughts, words, and behaviors? How can we uphold the values he lived?
Presented as part of Alumni Weekend 2022 at the University of Chicago.
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This as in-person event, and will be held at the Oriental Institute, Breasted Hall, 1155 E. 58th St.
Masks are encouranged, but not mandatory, and proof of vaccination is not required.
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