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Related Programs and Projects
Programs
- May 1 - July 31, 2018 -- They Demanded Courageously: The 1968 Northwestern Bursar’s Office Takeover (Northwestern University)
- July 5 - August 2, 2018 -- Riots and Protest: Chicago’s Legacy of Conflict (5 session class, Newberry Library)
- Monday, July 9, 2018 -- Film showing and guided tour of Photo Exhibition: Au Cœur de Mai '68 (Alliance Française Chicago)
- July 9 - September 9, 2018 -- Photo Exhibition: Au Cœur de Mai '68 (Alliance Française Chicago)
- Thursday, August 23, 2018 -- The 1968 Democratic Convention: 50th Anniversary (Chicago Public Library)
- Saturday, August 25, 2018 -- Flashmob (Floating Museum, Grant Park)
- Sunday, August 26, 2018 -- Chicago ‘68 Trolley Tour (Chicago History Museum)
- Wednesday, August 29, 2018 -- The Whole World is Still Watching discussion (University of Illinois at Chicago)
- September 6 - December 16, 2018 -- Whitney Bradshaw: Outcry (DePaul Art Museum)
- September 13 - December 18, 2018 -- The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side 1960-1980 (SMART Museum, University of Chicago)
- September 23, 2018, 9:00 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.--Young Lords 50th Anniversary Symposium (DePaul Student Center, Lincoln Park)
- September 25, 2018, 6:00 p.m. -- ‘63 Boycott Screening and discussion, (University of Illinois Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library, Room 1-470 1st floor)
- October 7 - January 31 -- RESIST! Franklin McMahon's Protest Drawings (Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society)
- Thursday, October 11, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. -- Open Forum: "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly": Chicago Medical History 1968 (Chicago Area Medical Archivists Fall Symposium, (Prentice Women's Hospital)
- October 11 - December 21, 2018 -- The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity, and Politics (Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago)
- October 13, 2018, 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. -- Walking Tour led by Rachel Boyle, PhD, curator of "Place of Protest: Chicago's Legacy of Dissent, Declaration, and Disruption" (Meet on the river walk north of Clark & Wacker)
- Tuesday, October 23, 2018 -- Funded Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy and the Women’s Movement 1870-1967 (Newberry Library)
- Tuesday, October 30, 2018, 5:30 p.m. --Documenting Movements: Archivists as Social Justice Advocates, Lae'l Hughes-Watkins, Project STAND, (Roosevelt University, 425 S. Wabash Ave. Room 317 -photo ID required)
- Through October 28, The Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection window display, (Columbia College Chicago, 618 S. Michigan Avenue)
- Thursday, November 8, 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. MCA '68 - Art & Violence, Then & Now, (MCA Chicago, Edlis Neeson Theater, 220 E. Chicago Avenue)
Online Exhibits and Blogs
- 50th Anniversary of 1968 Democratic National Convention (Chicago Public Library)
- Activism: Italy and Social Justice (University of Chicago)
- The Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection (Columbia College Chicago)
- Chicago: Law and Disorder (1968, Chicago History Museum)
- They Demanded Courageously: The 1968 Northwestern Bursar’s Office Takeover (Northwestern University)
- The Dramas of Haymarket (Chicago History Museum)
- Photographs of protests (Pritzker Military Museum and Library)
- Red Press: Radical Print Culture from St. Petersburg to Chicago (University of Chicago)