Theres different people i have not always agreed with that have he title, chief of staff. Im a High School History teachber training, taught in shuck public schooling ford ten years and lucky enough to land a position on staff at the ctu but at my core im still in the classroom and i milled it greatly. Im really alreadied to be hike talking with two people who i admire immensely and you should be excited to be here with them today. Im also honored to be part of printers row litfest. Were here to honor books and i would like to say my dining room is also the place where i honor books. Ive run out of space on my shelfs and now you cant dine in there, but the books have a nice home. So today were here with Elizabeth Todd vrelnan. The off the or instant classic, black politics and education reform in chicago since then 1960s. Is required reading youre a chicagoan or care about Public Education today and as many of you probably foe, also one the neuer new appointee those Chicago Public Scho
Audience so you can all engage us, but we can talk a lot about this, as we do not often get to be in a room with one another to discuss this. I will get to the panelists in the order that they are here. First up will be jennifer, the predoctoral fellow in history at the university of illinois at chicago. She earned her ba from North Carolina university. She earned an ma in history from the university of North Carolina at greensboro. She is a former faculty member at city college and has taught history at several institutions. Her dissertation traces the history of gender and sexuality. Through the 1950s through the early 2000s. At the heart is the resistance and activism of young women and lgbt students. They are examined as forces that challenge administrative policies, academic offerings and cultural institutions at historically black colleges. Through organizing this with activism on several grounds beginning with the modern Civil Rights Movement and ending with campaigns around ant
Is important. Next from the berkshire conference a panel of historians discuss black education in the 1960s and how these women transformed history for americans. It is about 90 minutes. Thank you all for joining us. Welcome to this exciting roundtable on black women and transformations and education. I am honored to be here. I am a associate professor of womens gender and sexuality studies at ohio state university. I am humbled and honored to be panelderator for this with three of my esteemed colleagues. The format will be each professor will speak for about 10 minutes and focus on their around blacks women and education. Have a discussion among ourselves than we will be able to open that up to the audience so you can all engage as we do not often get to be in a room with one another to discuss this. I will get to the panelists in the order that they are here. Thet up will be jennifer free doctoral fellow in history at the university of illinois at chicago. Northrned her ba from carol
To do through my years of Public Service. And i tried to retire gracefully. But, i just couldnt do it. I missed serving. And as the years went on, and i did my traveling, and i did my volunteer work, and all the things to keep myself very busy, and not feel too bad about losing, because i didnt choose to retire, as you remember right. I gave sick leave to workers and they came after me and i lost in the primary, and then i ran a writein. I did beat the person that beat me in the primary but it was not enough to beat Michael Brown who had number one on the ballot. Of course we know what happened to him. Hes serving in jail right now. So i dont think getting rid of me was necessarily the best thing that ever happened for the city, or me. But i did try to retire gracefully, and then i just found my leisure skills were not that good, and i missed impacting on peoples lives in a positive way. And then when i saw the primary, and what the choices were in the general election, i for the first
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