African American Studies Program

SPRING 2000 Event Calendar

(Events on this calendar included events which AAS is cosponsoring)

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JANUARY 2000

Wednesday, January 12, 2000

• AAS will once again sponsor a sneak preview showing of the Wonderful World of Disney's annual tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. This year the title of the movie is," The Loretta Claiborne Story", and will be shown to over 1,200 students from the Houston Independent School District. The movie will begin at 9:00 a.m., and a discussion led by the AAS Minors Association will follow at 11:00 a.m. Friends of AAS and the UH community are also invited to attend, and seating reservations will be accepted up to January 7, 2000.

Thursday, January 20, 2000

• AAS will host the Third Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Commemoration on the UH Campus. .This year, AAS will present a dramatic performance entitled "The Guardian: The Tragedy and Triumph of Emmett Till." The play will be produced by University of Houston and African American Studies Alumnus Je'Caryous Johnson and directed by Ezekial Morgan. Emmett Louis Till's 1955 murder is considered to be one of the catalysts for the civil rights movement. According to public history, his brutal slaying, the manner in which the criminal investigation was handled and the court acquittal of the murderers who later confessed, ignited a fire that had been smoldering: the African American struggle for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Till became blacks' symbolic sacrificial lamb for justice. The free, public performance will be held 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20, 2000, at the UH Cullen Performance Hall, UH Entrance 1, at 4800 Calhoun Rd.

FEBRUARY 2000

MARCH 2000

Thursday, March 23 thru Sunday, March 26, 2000

• The Fourth Annual Black History Workshop entitled "Anti-Slavery, Emancipation, and Post Emancipation", will be held on the University of Houston campus. Schedule of events to be published in February, 2000.

APRIL 2000

Thursday, April 6, 2000

• The Second Annual AAS Scholars Banquet will be held at the University of Houston Hilton Hotel Conrad Hilton Ballroom. This year's banquet will feature a band and ballroom dancing. All proceeds from this event will go to the AAS Scholarship Fund and also to fund various AAS student projects. Performing artists to be announced in February, 2000.

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