The Global Media Research Center is co-sponsoring this event.  Please share this information with students and faculty in your department.  For more information about this event, contact Angela Aguayo at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Additionally, Jeff Haas, former attorney for the Panthers, Young Lords, SDS, and demonstrators against the Vietnam War is looking forward to visiting with various departments and organizations on campus. If you or anyone in your department is interested in having Jeff as a guest in your classroom please contact Angela Aguayo at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF SIU: 'THE 1970 STUDENT REBELLION' & 'BLACK POWER IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS'

***a two night event: March 24-25***

Forty years ago Southern Illinois University erupted in protests and a rebellion that shut down the campus. Students were protesting the war in Vietnam, against poverty and racism and for university reform. At the same time, students and community members were actively involved in the civil rights and Black Power movements. Attend these two special forums to discuss this important (but often hidden) history from below.

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7pm Wednesday, March 24 (in Lawson Hall, room 171)
THE 1970 STUDENT REBELLION

Participants include: Brian Clardy * author, The Management of Dissent: Responses to the Post-Kent State Protests at Seven Public Universities in Illinois; Georgeann Hartzog * former student activist and member of the Peace Coalition of Southern Illinois; Ray Lenzi * former student activist and former SIUC vice-chancellor; Robbie :Lieberman * chair of the SIUC Department of History and author of Prairie Power: Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest; Hugh Muldoon * former student activist and director of the GAIA House Interfaith Center

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7pm Thursday, March 25 (in Lawson Hall, room 171)
BLACK POWER IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

Invited Participants Include: Angela Aguayo * SIUC assistant professor of cinema and photography; Jeffrey Haas * author of The Assassination o f Fred Hampton: How the FBI and Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther; Jakobi Williams * professor at the University of Kentucky and author of the forthcoming From Fred Hampton to Barack Obama.

Sponsored/Endorsed by the African American Museum, Black American Studies (SIUC), College of Liberal Arts (SIUC), Department of Cinema and Photography (SIUC), Department of History (SIUC), Department of Sociology (SIUC), Department of Speech Communication (SIUC), Global Media Research Center (SIUC), International Socialist Organization/SIU Socialists (SIUC), Sociology Club (SIUC), Peace Coalition of Southern Illinois, Students for Peace and Democracy (SIUC), The Underserved Fellowship Office (SIUC), Women's Studies (SIUC) (list in formation). To endorse e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it