2013 commemorates President Abraham Lincoln’s issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation
Executive Order in 1863. Coinciding with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and
Black History Month, the Sesquicentennial commemorates historical and contemporary
national issues related to the meaning of freedom and equality.
JAN 19
Performance: Sing the Truth!
JAN 31
Lecture: Dr. Thavolia Glymph
7:30 pm
Tryon Festival Theatre
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets: www.krannertcenter.com
Author of Out of the House of Bondage:
The Transformation of the Plantation Household
4:00 pm
Knight Auditorium
Spurlock Museum
JAN 20
MLK: A Service of Celebration
5:00 pm
Foellinger Great Hall
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
JAN 21
MLK: Unity Breakfast
8:30 am
Dodds Athletic Center
Gymnasium: P209
Parkland College
JAN 24 to APR 28
Art Exhibit: Jacob Lawrence
Toussaint L’Ouverture Series
Krannert Art Museum
JAN 24
Lecture: Jacob Lawrence
Dr. Edmund B. Gaither
4:00 pm College of Law Auditorium
6:00 pm Exhibit Opening
Krannert Art Museum
JAN 25
Teacher Workshops:
Teaching and Learning about the Civil
Rights Movement
Featuring Dr. Alana Murray
9:00 am and 4:00 pm
College of Education
JAN 26
MLK Community Celebration
MLK Writing Contest:
Presentation of Winners
10:00 am
Lobby
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
JAN 30
Film: “Mississippi, America”
Featuring Producer Judith McCray
7:00 pm
College of Law Auditorium
FEB 6
Film: “Traces of the Trade: A Story
from the Deep North”
Featuring Filmmaker Katrina Browne
7:00 pm
Location: TBD
FEB 9
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK®
7:30 pm
Tryon Festival Theatre
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets: www.krannertcenter.com
FEB 19
Community Conversation:
Crime, Diversity, and Equality
9:00 am
Illini Rooms B&C
Illini Union
FEB 20
Lecture: Professor Michelle Alexander, JD
Author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the
Age of Colorblindness
6:00 pm
Illini Rooms B&C
Illini Union
FEB 23
Black and Latino Male Summit 2013
Featuring keynotes and workshops
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Location: TBD
FEB 27
Culminating Celebration
Featuring a keynote by Dr. Myrlie Evers-Williams and
performances by the University of Illinois Black Chorus
and the Illinois Wind Symphony
7:30 pm
Foellinger Great Hall
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
The following films will be shown on various dates, and at campus locations, to be determined.
♦ “Jacob Lawrence: The Glory of Expression” ♦ “Freedom Riders” ♦ “For Us, The Living” ♦
For Calendars of Events related to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration and the
Sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, please visit
http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/MLK/index.html