{"id":2135,"date":"2023-02-02T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2023-02-02T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:15:11","slug":"celebrate-black-history-month-with-the-uconn-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/celebrate-black-history-month-with-the-uconn-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Black History Month with the UConn Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Focusing on the\u00a0theme of Black Resistance, we have many ways you can join our celebration of\u00a0Black History Month<\/strong>. There will be exhibit in multiple locations that include Homer Babbidge Library, our regional campuses, and Archives & Special Collections. We will be hosting a screening of\u00a0Rosewood<\/em>\u00a0(1997), the cinematic retelling of a true-to-life racial pogrom that decimated a predominately African American town in Florida, and a discussion with Lizzie Robinson Jenkins,\u00a0founder and president of the Real Rosewood Foundation, Inc. We are also co-sponsors of the African American Cultural Center’s Black History Month Closing Ceremony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exhibition – Disorder in the Night: Narratives of Black Resistance, 1723-2023
<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0February 1-28, 2023
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Located in multiple locations including:\u00a0
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Homer Babbidge Library Plaza
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Avery Point Campus Library
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Hartford Campus Library
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Waterbury Campus Library
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Stamford Campus Library\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disorder in the Night explores the Black resistance in its various forms, from the period of enslavement to the present. Organized by three broad themes: everyday subversions \u2013 small acts of resistance taken in everyday life or daily activities; cultural revolution \u2013 the use of creative expression through media or the arts to create social, political, or cultural change; and collective action \u2013 the power of people and the use of cooperative organizing or mass mobilization throughout history. 
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Event –\u00a0Film Screening – Rosewood (1997)
<\/strong>This blockbuster film is the cinematic retelling of the true-life destruction of an African American community in 1923. It Jim Crow-era violence and the Black radical tradition of resistance.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 February 21, 6:00-8:30pm
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Homer Babbidge Library
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Class of 1947 & Virtual
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Free!\u00a0Registration required
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Event – Discussion: Rosewood Film & History<\/strong>
with Mrs. Lizzie Robinson Jenkins, Founder & President of the Real Rosewood Foundation, Inc. and Rosewood descendant.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 February 22, 6:00-7:30pm
\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Virtual only
\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Free!\u00a0Registration required<\/a>\u00a0
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Dr. Rik Stevenson, courtesy of the University of Florida’s African American Studies<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Event – Black History Month Closing Ceremony
<\/strong>We are a proud co-sponsor of African American Cultural Center’s Black History Month Closing Ceremony with a keynote address by Dr. Rik Stevenson, a professor of African American Studies at the University of Florida. Dr. Stevenson’s research examines Black resistance in the Middle Passage.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 February 27, 6:00pm
\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Student Union Ballroom
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Resources to learn more\u00a0<\/strong>including research guides and featured collections on our\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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