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/> [log in to unmask] ________________________________ 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 To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html