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This year’s Black History Month program offers many exciting opportunities and events for students, including a free 3-day civil rights trip, several powerful experiential learning activities, and social gatherings to network, debate, and learn.
Check out these Black History Month program highlights:
Interested in experiencing civil rights history?
A free 3-day field trip to Montgomery, Selma, and Birmingham
When: March 6-9, 2020
Apply for a spot here.
For more information, contact Dr. Susan Eckelmann Berghel at Susan-Eckelmann@utc.edu.
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Interested in learning more about racism in the medical profession?
Participate in a simulation workshop that shows the impact of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment between 1932-1972.
When: Tuesday, February 18 and Wednesday, February 19, 2020, 6:00-8:00 pm
Where: University Center Signal Mountain Room
Register here.
For more information, contact Dr. Mark Johnson at mark-johnson01@utc.edu.
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Interested in racism and the criminal justice system?
Come to one of the following film screenings:
Just Mercy: Movie Screening and Discussion
When: Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 6:45 pm
Where: Majestic 12 Downtown
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The Eric Morse Story: Race, Poverty, and the Criminalization of Black Youth
When: Thursday, February 13, 2020, 5:00 pm
Where: University Center Heritage Room
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Interested in local history and racial violence?
Black Heroines for Justice: 1980s Terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan in Chattanooga and the Women Who Stood Against Them
When: Thursday, February 20, 2020, 5:30 pm
Where: Bessie Smith Cultural Center
For more information, contact Dr. Susan Eckelmann Berghel at Susan-Eckelmann@utc.edu.
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Interested in Civil War history and Memory?
Confronting the Past in Memphis: Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Antebellum Slave Trade, and the Reinvention of Civil War Memory
When: Thursday, February 20, 2020, 7:00 pm
Where: University Center Signal Mountain Room
More info here
For more information, contact Dr. Michael Thompson at Michael-D-Thompson@utc.edu.
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Interested in Frantz Fanon’s Phenomenology?
Join a Philosophy Club discussion of Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary, psychiatrist, and a political philosopher who founded the discipline of post-colonialism and heavily influenced black liberation leaders such as Huey P. Newton, Stokely Carmichael, and Angela Davis.
When: Friday, February 7, 2020, 5:30 pm
Where: State Office Building Room 105
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Interested in even more events?
See the full calendar of the Black History Month Program here.