Martin Luther King, Jr. Educational Enrichment Events
January 22-24, 2008
The University of Georgia Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration 2008 Educational Enrichment Committee is pleased to announce three public programs that will take place on the University campus and the Athens Public Library. These educational enrichment programs are part of a full slate of events coordinated by the University of Georgia’s Office of Institutional Diversity. Cosponsors for these programs include Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, Department of Intercultural Affairs, College of Family and Consumer Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia Libraries, Digital Library of Georgia, Athens Clarke County Public Library, Foot Soldier Project for Civil Rights Studies, and the Institute for African American Studies. All three educational enrichment programs are blue card events, and are free and open to everyone.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 , 7 p.m.
National Issues Forum: “Racial And Ethnic Tensions: What Should We Do?”
Adinkra Hall on the 4 th floor of Memorial Hall, UGA campus
We have come a long way in the United States, but lingering racial and ethnic discrimination continues to strain the bonds that hold us together. It is time we set our minds to achieving Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream of true equality. How can we best do this?
Students, faculty, staff, and Athens area community members are invited to participate in a town-hall style National Issues Forum (NIF) to discuss the complex and challenging issues related to racial and ethnic tensions that remain a part of American society. The forum will take place on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 7p.m. in Adinkra Hall on the 4th floor of Memorial Hall, UGA campus. This NIF program will offer citizens the opportunity to join together to deliberate, to make choices with others about ways to approach difficult issues and to work toward creating reasoned public judgment. It will also provide a way for people of diverse views and experiences to seek a shared understanding of the problem and to search for common ground for action. The program is a blue card event and is free and open to everyone.
Trained, neutral moderators lead the forums and use an issue discussion guide that frames the issue by presenting the overall problem and then three or four broad approaches to the problem. Each approach offers a different diagnosis of what is wrong. Each provides a direction for public action. Each includes ideas and proposals that are drawn from across the political spectrum. Forum participants work through the issue by considering each approach; examining what appeals to them or concerns them, and also what the costs, consequences, and trade offs may be that would be incurred in following that approach.
Moderators for the forum will be Ms. Melissa Shivers, Director, Department of Intercultural Affairs; Ms. Jill Severn, Coordinator, Russell Library Public Policy Institute; and Ms. Sharon Gibson, Multicultural Specialist, College of Family and Consumer Sciences and College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Cooperative Extension.
Directions and Parking
Memorial Hall is located on the University of Georgia campus next to Sanford Stadium at the corner of Sanford Drive and Hooper Street. Use the Hooper Street entrance and take the elevator to the 4 th floor to reach Adinkra Hall. Covered parking is available for a fee in the North Campus Parking Deck on Jackson St. as well as the Hull Street Parking Deck on Hull St . Parking is also available in the parking lot next to the Psychology-Journalism Building. Entrance is on Hooper St . Do not park in the areas marked as reserved for patients of the Psychology Clinic.
Wednesday, January 23, 2007, 7 p.m.
Picturing Social Change Online and Onscreen:
Civil Rights Projects at the University of Georgia
Athens Clarke County Public Library Auditorium
In celebration of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life and legacy, the Office of Institutional Diversity in partnership with the Digital Library of Georgia, the University of Georgia Libraries, and the Athens Clarke County Public Library, are pleased to offer a preview presentation of two new and exciting University of Georgia projects focused on the Civil Rights Movement that will debut in the spring of 2008.
On January 23, 2007 at 7 p.m. at the Athens Clarke County Public Library Auditorium, Dr. Barbara McCaskill and Dr. Toby Graham, the leaders for these initiatives, will discuss their development and scope and share some of the wonderful content that will be available. Members of the project teams, Ms. Kamille Bostick, Ms. Christina Davis, Ms. Mary Boyce Hicks, and Ms. Lauren Chambers, will join them. The program is a blue card event and is free and open to everyone.
When launched, the collaborative Civil Rights Digital Library and Freedom on Film: Civil Rights in Georgia projects will offer a central online portal where visitors can experience and learn about the people, events, and perspectives of the Civil Rights Movement through a rich array of historical materials, news film footage, oral histories and learning tools.
According to William Gray Potter, the UGA university librarian and associate provost, "The Civil Rights Digital Library represents the most ambitious and comprehensive effort to date to deliver educational content on the Civil Rights Movement via the web. . . By collecting collateral information on a national scale, we will create a virtual library on the Movement."
Directions and Parking
The Athens Clarke County Public Library is located at 2025 Baxter Street. Entrance for the parking lot and the Library is on Dudley Drive, which intersects with Baxter Street.
Thursday, January 24, 2008, 12 p.m.
New Directions in Civil Rights Studies: Women Foot Soldiers of the Movement
Adinkra Hall on the 4 th floor of Memorial Hall, UGA campus
The University of Georgia Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration 2008 Educational Enrichment Committee invites students, faculty, staff, and members of the community to a panel discussion of the roles women have played as foot soldiers in the Civil Rights Movement. The event will take place Thursday, January 24th at 12 p.m. in Adinkra Hall, Memorial Hall on the University campus. Dr. Joyce Bell, Assistant Professor in the Institute for African American Studies and Sociology, The University of Georgia chairs this panel and is joined by Drs. Vicki Crawford, Associate Dean, Division of Humanities, and Professor of history, Clark Atlanta University, and Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Adult Education, UGA. The program is a blue card event and is free and open to everyone.
Directions and Parking
Memorial Hall is located on the University of Georgia campus next to Sanford Stadium at the corner of Sanford Drive and Hooper Street. Use the Hooper Street entrance and take the elevator to the 4th floor to reach Adinkra Hall. Covered parking is available for a fee in the North Campus Parking Deck on Jackson St. as well as the Hull Street Parking Deck on Hull St. Parking is also available in the parking lot next to the Psychology-Journalism Building. Entrance is on Hooper St. Do not park in the areas marked as reserved for patients of the Psychology Clinic.
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