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African American PeaceMakers as Agents for Change
Great Cities Institute is pleased to have co-sponsored a recent three-day lecture series, African
American PeaceMakers as Agents for Change. This lecture series
commemorated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous Riverside Church speech in 1967,
"Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence", when he spoke out against the war in Vietnam. In addition to
the three lectures, a reception and preview of the exhibition African American
PeaceMakers was held at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.
On April 2, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, the founding director of the Women's Research and Resource
Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies at Spelman College, delivered a talk
entitled African American Women PeaceMakers. The full talk is available through
Chicago Public Radio at
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=20746 .
Bill Fletcher, Jr. gave a talk entitled African American PeaceMakers on a Global Stage
on April 3. Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a longtime labor and human rights activist and the former President and
Chief Executive Officer of TransAfrica Forum; he is currently a Senior Scholar for the Institute
for Policy Studies in Washington DC and editor for Black Commentator.
The final lecture on April 4, African American PeaceMakers: A Historical View, was
given by Dr. Manning Marable. Dr. Marable is one of America's most influential and widely read public
intellectuals. He is Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History, and African-American Studies
at Columbia University in New York City and was the founding director of the Institue for Research in
African-American Studies at Columbia.
The African American PeaceMakers as Agents for Change series was co-sponsored by the University of Illinois Office of the President, UIC Department of
African-American Studies, UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIC Office of the Chancellor, The
Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council, and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.
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