Freedom Riders Screening and Discussion

  

Freedom Riders Screening and Discussion

  

Saturday, April 9, 2011

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

The DuSable Museum of African American History 

740 East 56th Place (Auditorium) 

Chicago 

This event is free and open to the public.  Reservations are required and can be made online, by email at events@prairie.org, or by calling 312.422.5580.

Please join us for the Chicago premiere of Freedom Riders and stay for a post-screening discussion with director Stanley Nelson and former Freedom Riders Genevieve Hughes Houghton, Thomas Armstrong, and Dan Stevens.  The discussion will be moderated by Adam Green, Ph.D., professor of history at the University of Chicago.

  

For more information about Freedom Riders series,  visit  www.prairie.org/freedomriders or call 312.422.5580.

Co-sponsors for Freedom Riders series: WBEZ-Chicago, DuSable Museum of African-American History, Neighborhood Writing Alliance, Free Street Theatre, Congo Square Theatre, Young Chicago Authors, Chicago Freedom School, Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, Woodson Regional Library, The Foundation for Homan Square, The African Museum of Southern Illinois, WSIU, The Varsity Theatre, E. St Louis School District 189, Freedom Trails Legacies of Hope.

This program is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Views and opinions expressed by individual panelists, scholars, and artists in 

Freedom Ridersdo not necessarily state or reflect those of partner organizations in the series, the Illinois Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, or the Illinois General Assembly.