Hi, all--
 
Please see below for information on Black History Month events at
Monticello.  I hope you can join us!
 
--Eric 
 
Eric D. M. Johnson
Library Services Coordinator
Jefferson Library, Monticello
P.O. Box 316
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone: (434) 984-7540 | Fax: (434) 984-7546
http://www.monticello.org/library/ <http://www.monticello.org/library/> 
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	From: Leni Sorensen 
	Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 1:25 PM
	To: All Foundation Staff
	Subject: BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2007 @ MONTICELLO
	
	

	 

	BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2007 

	 

	Saturday, February 10

	Lecture/performance: Virginia Roots Music: Creating and
Conserving Tradition.  Focusing on the 1920s and 30s Dr. Gregg D.
Kimball, of the Library of Virginia, tells the compelling stories of the
Commonwealth's musical masters through rare period music, images, and
live performance.  Playing with him will be Jeffery Scott, nephew of the
late Piedmont blues man John Jackson. Visitors Center. 1 pm and 4 pm.
Free.  

	 

	Tuesday, February 13 

	Lecture: Garveyism, Black Nationalism, and Virginia.  Between
1920 and 1935, nearly three million black women and men around the world
rallied behind the Pan-African politics of Marcus Garvey.  Virginia
blacks, in particular, responded enthusiastically to Garvey's economic
and political initiatives.  Dr. Claudrena Harold, a professor of history
at UVA, will explore how their class and racial concerns led them to
support Garvey's African emigration efforts, thus leading to a bizarre
alliance with Virginia's leading white supremacists.  Kenwood. 4 pm.
Free.  

	 

	Wednesday, February 21

	Lecture: Appropriating Slavery, Repairing History: A Literary
Representation.  Dr. Maurice Apprey, a practicing psychiatrist and
Interim Director of the Office of African-American Affairs at UVA, will
use Carolivia Herron's novel, Forever Johnnie, to show us how the events
of history are turned into a personal sense of history within the
African-American experience.  The novel allows an opportunity to discuss
forms of destructive aggression and the potential for psychological
emancipation.  Kenwood. 4 pm. Free.  

	 

	Thursday, February 22

	Lecture: Frederick Madison Roberts: Monticello's California
Connection.  Dr. Douglas Flamming, professor of history at Georgia Tech,
will highlight the eventful life of Frederick Madison Roberts,
descendant of Monticello's Hemings family.  Colorado College graduate,
gold prospector, school principal, and mortician, Roberts was the first
black to be elected to the California assembly, where he served as a
Republican from 1918 to 1934.  He was a strong and influential advocate
of civil rights in the legislature and through his Los Angeles
newspaper, the New Age.  There will be a reception and book signing
after the talk. Kenwood. 4 pm. Free.  

	 

	Please post for those without email.  Thanks you, 

	Leni A. Sorensen

	African-American Research Historian

	Monticello

	P O Box 316

	Charlottesville, VA 22902

	434-984-7507

	 


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