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Statehood Day
Symposium
Commemorating the
189th Anniversary of Illinois Statehood
Sponsored by the Illinois State
Historical Society
The
African-American Experience in Illinois
Saturday, December 1, 2007
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
The Howlett Building Auditorium
(Formerly the Centennnial Building)
2nd and Edwards Streets,
Springfield, IL
Featuring the following
presentations:
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“African American Life and History
In Illinois’ Northern Tier: The Case of Chicago And Its
Satellite Communities” |
Presenter: Christopher R. Reed,
Professor Emeritus of History, Roosevelt University
Professor Reed discusses the results of a 30-year study on
African American life and history in Chicago during the
frontier, Civil War, Reconstruction, Gilded Age and
Progressive eras.
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“Bridges of Memory: Chicago’s
First Wave of Black Migration” |
Presenter: Timuel D. Black Jr.,
Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences, City Colleges of
Chicago
Professor Black will discuss the
genesis of his award-winning oral history study of African
Americans who migrated to Chicago after World War II.
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“An Organized Resistance: How
African-Americans Defended their Life, Liberty, and
Property during the Springfield, Illinois Race Riot of
1908” |
Presenter: Anthony (Tony) M.
Landis, Assistant Director at the Ohio Board of Regents
Anthony M. Landis is an Assistant
Director at the Ohio Board of Regents, the agency that
oversees funding and policy direction for Ohio’s colleges
and universities. He is responsible for the
administration of two statewide federal grant programs
that support career technical education and workforce
development. Anthony received his Master of Arts in
History from Southern Illinois University—Edwardsville
where he focused on early twentieth-century
African-American urban history, researching the
Springfield, Illinois Race Riot of 1908. His master’s
thesis, “They Refused to Stay in Their Place: African
American Organized Resistance During the Springfield,
Illinois Race Riot of 1908,” explores the beginnings of
Springfield’s African American community and their
creation of organizations, institutions, and communal
networks that provided the foundation for a strategic
defense during the riot. Last year, he had a 5,000 word
entry about the Springfield Race Riot published in The
Encyclopedia of American Race Riots.
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“Images of Home: A Southern
Childhood in Illinois” |
Presenter: Shirley J. Portwood,
Professor Emeritus, Department of Historical Studies,
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
Professor Portwood is the author of
numerous works including Tell Us a Story: An African
American Family in the Heartland (SIU Press, 2000).
For more information call The
Illinois State Historical Society at 217-525-2781.
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