‘Seven Guitars’
Date: October 7-13, 2013
Time: 7:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday
Location: Gallaway Theatre, Rowand-Johnson Building
Cost: $18 for adults, $15 for UA faculty/staff and senior citizens, $12 for students/children
Sponsor: UA Department of Theatre and Dance
More info: www.ua.tix.com or 205-348-3400

“Seven Guitars,” a 1995 play by American playwright August Wilson, focuses on seven African-American characters in the year 1948. The play’s recurring theme is the African-American male’s fight for his own humanity, self-understanding, and self-acceptance in the face of personal and societal ills.

Date: June 3 - 24, 2013
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Location: Bryant Conference Center
Sponsor: College of Continuing Studies
Cost: Free
Contact Information: Gary Creek, 205-765-2799, gcreek@ccs.ua.edu - http://uanews.ua.edu/2013/05/uas-continuing-studies-sponsors-civil-rights-photo-exhibit/

More than 20 photographs depicting the civil rights movement, including many never publicly viewed before, will be displayed June 3-14 at The University of Alabama’s Bryant Conference Center.

The free exhibit, compiled from the archives of The Birmingham News, is sponsored by the UA College of Continuing Studies, The Birmingham News and AL.com, and will travel the state for the remainder of the year, representatives said.

Date: Feb. 16 - April 28, 2013
Time: For hours see www.lib.ua.edu/hours
Location: Pearce Foyer, second floor, Gorgas Library
Cost: Free
Sponsors: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit
Contact Info: dbadcock@lib.ua.edu

Date: March 5 - April 19, 2013
Time: Opening reception: March 7, 5:30-7:30 p.m.; Gallery hours: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday-Wednesday and Friday, noon – 8 p.m. Thursday
Location: Paul R. Jones Gallery
Sponsor: Collaboration between scholars at UA and the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Cost: Free
Contact Info: Lucy Curzon, lcurzon@as.ua.edu 

Using selections from the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art at The University of Alabama, “Migration/s,” investigates how artists have reflected upon the history of African-American experiences in the wake of the Great Migration (loosely dated from around 1915 to 1970) as well as upon more expansive historical and contemporary, local and global, and national and international migrations. Interdisciplinary questions the exhibition broaches include: How has migration been a destabilizing phenomenon or how has it contributed to more cohesive formations of identities? What difficulties and struggles have arisen in defining belonging and citizenship as a result of migration? How might artists and cultural producers be understood as migrants or artistic-cultural production as migratory?

The exhibition is organized into four sections: the migrant impulse, the migration experience, protest and resistance movements, and the migrant artist. It features such renowned artists as Lois Mailou Jones, John Riddle, Jr., James Sherman Brantley, Margaret T. Goss Burroughs, Reginald Gammon, Emma Amos, Dawoud Bey, and Elizabeth Catlett.

This event is part of is part of “Through the Doors,” a year-long series of activities and events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the desegregation of UA.  

Date:  Feb. 13- April 10, 2013
Time: 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Location: 301 Gorgas Library
Cost: Free
Sponsors: University Libraries and the A.S. Williams III Americana Collection
Contact Info: Nancy DuPree, 205-348-1489, ndupree@ua.edu

Date:  Jan. 9 – Feb. 22, 2013
Time: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday-Wednesday and Friday, noon – 8 p.m. Thursday
Location: Paul R. Jones Gallery, 2308 Sixth Street, downtown Tuscaloosa
Cost: Free
Sponsors: University Libraries and the A.S. Williams III Americana Collection
Contact Info: Katie Mcallister, 205-345-3038, mcall007@bama.ua.edu

“African-American Heritage Month is a chance for us to get together and share our stories,” said Dr. Beverly Hawk, Crossroads Center director.

African-American History Month Program at UA Emphasizes Cultural Contributions

“Shakespeare and American Integration” symposium
Date: Nov. 15-16, 2013
Location: Bryant Conference Center
Sponsor: Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences
Contact info: Dr. Sharon O’Dair, sodair@bama.ua.edu

This two-day symposium discusses the role of Shakespeare in integration. Featured speakers include: Jason Demeter of George Washington University, Steven Buhler of the University of Nebraska, Nigel Hatton of the University of California, Merced, Delfeayo Marsalis, Joyce McDonald of the University of Kentucky, Ayanna Thompson of George Washington University, and Keith Miller and Erin McCarthy of Arizona State University. A concert featuring Delfeayo Marsalis and Octet will be held Friday, Nov. 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Moody Music building.

‘Diversity of the World and Intercultural Connection’
Date: November 13, 2013
Location: B.B. Comer Hall
Time: 3 - 4:30 p.m.

The Critical Languages Center will provide diverse foods for University of Alabama students to taste as part of the annual Exotic Food Tasting Trip. Food will be from these countries: Argentina, Azerbaijan, Basque, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Greek, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, and others. There will also be a costume show, international music, and a parade from the Ferguson Center to B.B. Comer Hall.

"Don’t Stop: The Promise of Hip-hop and Black Politics"
Date: Nov. 8
Time: 2 p.m.
Location: Gorgas library Room 205
Sponsor: Department of Gender and Race Studies
Contact info: Dr. Utz McKnight, umcknight@as.ua.edu
 
Dr. Lester Spence from Johns Hopkins University is a leading expert on the convergence of Black popular culture and racial politics. He will give the talk, "Don’t Stop: The Promise of Hip-hop and Black Politics," which will consider the way we use music to address racism, social change, and improving our understanding of Black community life. Spence’s latest book Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics addresses how rap has been important in addressing everything from police brutality, electoral politics, to the culture of presidential campaigns.

“Student Perceptions of Race Relations at the University of Alabama: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives”
Date: Nov. 6, 2013
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Location: Gorgas Library Room 205
Sponsor: College of Arts and Sciences, the Institute for Social Science Research, Department of Gender and Race Studies, Department of Political Science, and the School of Social Work
Contact info: Dr. Richard Fording, rcfording@ua.edu

This one-day symposium will feature research presentations on several dimensions of campus race relations by University of Alabama faculty, as well as several distinguished researchers across the disciplines of psychology, sociology, and political science. The symposium will largely be devoted to the presentation and discussion of the results of a recent survey of the racial attitudes and behavior of over 4,000 University of Alabama students conducted in January 2013. This survey is the latest in a series of similar surveys that have been conducted on campus beginning as early as 1963, when The University of Alabama was first integrated.

Schoolhouse Service Stand
Date: Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013
Time: 2-8 p.m.
Location: UA campus and Holt Cemetery
Sponsors: Community Service Center
Cost: Free
Contact info: www.volunteer.ua.edu

The Community Service Center at UA is sponsoring a volunteer service project in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stand at the Schoolhouse Door. The purpose of this project will be to educate students on how service and communication can break down social barriers that exist in our society and hinder us from moving forward as a unified community. The hope is that this project, while fostering a sense of community, will initiate relationships that continue the fight for equal rights that began many years ago.

Schedule of Events
• Registration from 2-3 p.m. at the Ferguson Plaza
• Travel to Holt Cemetery from 2:30 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Serve at Holt Cemetery from 3-5 p.m.
• Return to the Ferguson Center from 5-5:30 p.m.
• Dinner and Reflection from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Ferguson Center
• Candlelight Vigil Walk from the Ferguson Center to Foster Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
• Closing at Foster Auditorium at 8 p.m.

Date: Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2013
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: theatre, second floor Ferguson Center
Sponsors: UA National Alumni Association, the Division of Community Affairs, and the College of Continuing Studies
Cost: scholarship donations accepted
Contact info: College of Continuing Studies, (205) 348-6222, threedays.ua.edu

The one-hour film “Three Days at Foster” is the largely untold story of the barrier-shattering athletes who maneuvered in the shadow of Gov. George Wallace's 1963 stand in the schoolhouse door, including Wilbur Jackson, Dock Rone and Wendell Hudson. Learn how these athletes and coaches navigated the minefield of social change.

Noted sports author and director of the film Keith Dunnavant will present “Three Days at Foster” and former athletes, administrators and faculty who experienced these turbulent days of change at the Capstone will join Dunnavant in discussion following the film. The public is invited and donations for UA scholarships will be accepted at the door.

Date: Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013
Time: 06:30 p.m.
Location: Rast Room Bryant Conference Center
Cost: Free
Sponsors: OLLI at UA, TAURA and the Bryant Conference Center
Contact Info: Katie Hall, (256) 590-8799, knhall@ccs.ua.edu
 
OLLI at UA, TAURA, and the Bryant Conference Center are partnering to host their annual Community Forum on Oct. 8 at 6:30 p.m. in the Rast Room of the Bryant Conference Center. The forum will feature a panel of speakers who will discuss the University’s and the community’s journey to diversity from the Civil Rights Movement era to present day. Moderator for the event will be Phillip Coleman, anchor and special projects reporter for WVUA TV. Panelists include civil rights trailblazer Earnestine Tucker, UA’s representing attorney in the Alabama Higher Education Desegregation lawsuit Stan Murphy, Associate Provost of Academic Affairs Dot Martin, and First Generation Scholarship Coordinator Dianne Teague.

Date:  Oct. 8, 2013
Time:  12 -1 p.m.
Location:  223 Little Hall
Cost:  free
Sponsors:  School of Social Work; New College, College of Arts and Sciences; and the Department of Journalism, College of Communication and Information Sciences

Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. will present “If this is America . . .”  Pitts was originally hired by the Miami Herald to critique music, but within a few years he received his own column in which he dealt extensively with race, politics, and culture.  He is the author of six books, including "Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood."

Date: October 1-4, 2013
Time: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 5:30 p.m. Friday
Location: Morgan Hall auditorium
Sponsor: UA Department of Theatre and Dance
More info: 205-348-3400

Pre-professional dance students showed off their immense talent in pieces ranging in styles and genres. Opening with a pas de deux from traditional ballet and closing with an experimental, performance-art style piece, the show included a wide variety of songs such as “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” from the 1940s and “Falling Slowly” from the popular movie and new Broadway musical Once.

Cornelius Carter, director of UA’s dance program, choreographed a number in this season’s show as a continuation to a segment inspired by Vivian Malone and James T. Hood from The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door. Carter’s piece begins with a student’s a cappella rendition of a hymn sung in front of the curtain. The hymn accompanies the dancers, who illustrate the strength and struggle of the African-American female. Other pieces feature different historical or cultural themes.

Zachary Day Memorial Lecture Featuring Monica Miller
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Room 205 Gorgas Library
Sponsor: Department of Religious Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
Cost: free
Contact info: Dr. Merinda Simmons, simmon045@as.ua.edu

This lecture will feature Professor Monica Miller of the departments of religious studies and Africana studies at Lehigh University. Her research focuses on the study of religion, popular culture, youth subcultures, and various dimensions of material culture.

Date: Sept. 30, 2013
Time: 6 p.m.
Location:  Woodis-McDonald Auditorium, 118 Graves Hall
Cost: free
Contact info: Contact Dr. Carlton R. McHargh, cmchargh@bamaed.ua.edu
 
Dr. Joyce King, the Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair of Teaching, Learning and Leadership at George State University, will present this lecture. She is also professor of Educational Policy Studies and affiliated faculty in the department of African and African American Studies at Georgia State. In her lecture, King will imagine the road forward — where her study of black education tells her we ought to create opportunities for transformative teaching and learning that are not racially biased but culturally enabling for us all.

Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Date: Sept. 19-20, 2013
Time:  All-day event
Location: Montgomery, AL
Contact: Margaret A. Purcell, mpurcell@ccs.ua.edu 

New College will be hosting a two-day trip to visit the historical sites, museums, and archives in Montgomery, AL. Participants will examine the historical/cultural accounts of the Civil Rights Movement and selected histories of women who participated in it. They will also identify differences between what is recorded in history and culture and the histories of selected women in the Civil Rights Movement. The trip is an opportunity to reflect upon the impact of the difference, if any, in the recorded historical and cultural records and the selected histories of women who participated in the American civil rights movement.

Rose Gladney Lecture for Justice and Social Change, “Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women of SNCC”
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Room 205 Gorgas Library
Sponsor: Department of American Studies, New College, College of Arts and Sciences, and the Diversity Committee
Cost: free
Contact info: Dr. Lynne Adrian, 205-348-5940, ladrian@as.ua.edu

“Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women of SNCC” is the annual Rose Gladney Lecture for Justice and Social Change, and it will feature Constance Curry and Doris Derby, who will speak about their experiences in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The public is invited. There is no charge for the event. A book signing will follow the lecture.

‘Growing Up in Segregated Montgomery’
Date: Wednesday, Sep. 18, 2013
Time:  All-day event
Location: TBD
Contact Info: Margaret A. Purcell, mpurcell@ccs.ua.edu

Dr. Wilbur Rich, a noted political scientist, will tell of his life as a young person in Montgomery, Ala., during the civil rights era and will discuss African-American participation since that time. In addition to the lecture, he will discuss civil rights and political participation with New College Life Track students enrolled in Women in the Civil Rights Movement (Fall 2013) and other New College students.

Date: Sept. 17, 2013
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: Woodis-McDonald Auditorium, 118 Graves Hall
Cost: free
Contact info:  Contact Dr. Carlton R. McHargh, cmchargh@bamaed.ua.edu
 
Dr. Carol Lee, the Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy in the Learning Sciences Program at Northwestern University, will present this topic as part of the James P. Curtis Memorial Lecture Series. Lee is also a past president of the American Educational Research Association.
 

Opening the Graduate Door
Date: Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013
Time: 9:45-11:30 a.m.
Location: Ferguson Center Theatre
Sponsor: UA Graduate School

UA’s Graduate School will host a symposium titled “Opening the (Graduate) Schoolhouse Door at UA.” The panel discussion, which will focus on national leadership in African-American graduate education in the 21st century, features two early African-American graduate students, including the first to earn a doctorate, along with current students and several faculty members.

Date: June 20, 2013
Time: Noon
Location: Foster Auditorium
Cost: Free 
Contact info: College of Continuing Studies, 205-348-6330

On June 11, 1963, Dr. Earl Tilford marked the birth of the “third” University of Alabama. The period from then until the end of the decade was crucial in the making of the present university. Led by Dr. Earl Tilford, the tour will feature the three different eras of The University of Alabama, from 1831 to the present. Sites to be visited include the Mound, Woods Hall, Quad, the old library, Denny Chimes and Foster Auditorium. The tour will be a follow-up to the June 12 OLLI Bonus class led by Dr. Tilford.

Date: June 12, 2013
Time: Noon
Location: Bryant Conference Center
Cost: free
Contact info: College of Continuing Studies, 205-348-6330

In his book, “Turning the Tide: The Birth of the ‘Third’ University of Alabama,” Dr. Earl Tilford marked June 11, 1963, as the birth of the “third” University of Alabama. The period from then until the end of the decade was crucial in the making of the present university. During this time, President Frank A. Rose and his administration, working with a small cadre of reform-minded student leaders, did much to open the door to change. This bonus will be a lead-up to the June 20 Quad and Foster Auditorium field trip led by Dr. Tilford.

Date:  June 11, 2013
Time:  5:30 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. program
Location: Malone-Hood Plaza and Foster Auditorium
Cost: free

Throughout 2013, The University of Alabama is recognizing and honoring the courage and dedication of Vivian Malone and James Hood, the two African-American students who enrolled in the University on June 11, 1963. UA also is recognizing the University’s ongoing commitment to change over the past 50 years and to our continued progress in the next 50 years. The June 11, 2013, program will focus on “Through the Doors:  Courage.  Change.  Progress.”  The event includes brief presentations by former and current UA students, and musical performances by UA students, faculty and alumni.  http://uanews.ua.edu/2013/05/ua-to-commemorate-50th-anniversary-of-the-stand-in-the-schoolhouse-door/

Date: June 10, 2013
Time: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Location: Bryant Conference Center
Cost: free
Contact info: Kelli Knox Hall, kknox-hall@sa.ua.edu

Co-hosted by The University of Alabama and the UA College of Education, this daylong and interactive conference will include facilitated small-group discussions that will enable high school students to focus on the role they can play in their schools and communities now and in the years to come.  The event is for students who were nominated by their schools as future leaders and is not open to the public.

Date: June 7, 1963
Time: 7:30-9 a.m.
Location: Bryant Conference Center
Cost: free
Contact info:  Janet Griffith, janet.griffith@ua.edu

The event will honor the role of the faith community in UA’s integration in 1963 and the role of the faith community moving the University and the city forward. Also, please add this statement to the community prayer breakfast: While the breakfast is free, those planning to attend are asked to register at http://uaferguson.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=576940 by June 3.

Date: Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Location: University Church of Christ
Sponsor: College of Community Health Sciences
Cost: Free
Contact Information: Dr. Pamela Payne-Foster, 205-348-5148, Ppayne-foster@cchs.ua.edu

The UA College of Community Health Sciences is hosting a symposium on Tuesday, June 4, from 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. at University Church of Christ, 1200 Julia Tutwiler Drive, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 35404. The public is invited to attend. There is no cost to attend the event; however, an RSVP is requested to the following link events@cchs.ua.edu.

The symposium, Through These Doors: Changing the Face of Medicine, includes an afternoon segment with lunch, two panel sessions and a keynote address, and an evening segment with a Trailblazers recognition ceremony, dinner and a talk and a mentoring opportunity for students.

The afternoon segment begins with the first panel session, “Reviewing the History of Stand in the Schoolhouse Door,” which includes speakers Sandral Hullett, MD, CEO and medical director of Cooper Green Mercy Hospital in Birmingham, Ala., and one of the first African-American residents in the College’s Family Medicine Residency; and George Wallace Jr., a former Alabama state treasurer and Alabama Public Service Commissioner and the son of former Alabama Gov. George Wallace.

The second panel session, “Reviewing the History of Diversity in the College of Community Health Sciences,” includes speakers Herb Stone, MD, a Family Medicine physician and president and COO of Mobile Emergency Group in Mobile, Ala., and one of the first African-American residents in the College’s Family Medicine Residency; Vernon Scott Sr., MD, an African-American resident during the early years of the College’s residency and a practicing physician in Tuscaloosa; Earnestine Tucker, CRNP, a nurse practitioner and former employee of the College; and Carol Johnson, MD, one of the first African-American medical students at the College who now practices in Alabaster, Ala.

The keynote address, “The Future of Diversity in Medical Education,” will be given by Jeanette South-Paul, MD, medical director of the Community Health Services Division of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Andrew W. Mathieson Professor and Chair of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Health Sciences.

The evening segment begins with a recognition ceremony for Trailblazers of the College of Community Health Sciences, followed by a dinner and talk by Herb Stone, MD, titled, “So You Want To Be a Doctor.”  There will also be mentoring activities for high school students who are part of the College’s Rural Health Leaders Pipeline programs.

Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013
Time: 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Location: Shelby Hall
Sponsor: Department of Chemistry
Cost: free
Contact info: Dr. Laura Busenlehner, 205-348-8349, LSbusenlehner@ua.edu
The UA Department of Chemistry is hosting a Diversity Awareness Symposium Highlighting Research and Collaboration on Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Shelby Hall. Faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students and representatives of minority-serving student organizations from regional institutions are invited to attend. There is no cost to attend the event; however, registration is required. Since attendance is limited, students from under-represented groups will be given priority registration. Travel expenses for attendees will be reimbursed upon request.
The symposium features the  research contributions of STEM faculty traditionally under-represented in chemistry and biochemistry. The symposium also seeks to open a dialogue on recruitment and retention of under-represented groups through panel discussions highlighting educational and mentoring support, on the advantages of a graduate education, and on research and educational opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. A poster session will be held and undergraduate participants will be entered into a drawing for prizes. Undergraduate students at all levels, engaging in meritorious research or STEM outreach, are encouraged to present a poster at the symposium.
Guest speakers at the event include Professor Abby Parrill, chair of the chemistry department at The University of Memphis; Professor Pablo Sobrado, biochemistry department at Virginia Tech University, and Professor Stefan France, chemistry and biochemistry department at Georgia Tech University.
For more information, visit the conference website.

Date: April 22, 2013
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: Russell Hall auditorium, Room 159
Cost: free
Contact info:  Lesley Campbell, 205-348-0051, Lesley.Campbell@ua.edu, http://graduate.ua.edu/

The Last Lecture Series is sponsored by the Graduate School to celebrate the talents of creative, student-centered professors at The University of Alabama.  This year’s winner is Dr. Cassandra Simon, associate professor, School of Social Work.  For more information please contact the Graduate School.

Date: April 15-21, 2013

Time: 7:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday
Location: Gallaway Theatre, Rowand-Johnson Building
Cost:  $18 for adults, $15 for UA faculty/staff and senior citizens, $12 for students/children

More Info: www.ua.tix.com or 205-348-3400

Considered one of the most influential musicals of the 20th century, ‘Show Boat’ combined the talents of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II to tell the story of three generations of show folk on the Cotton Blossom floating theater. Written in 1927, ‘Show Boat’ is considered to be the first great American musical, and was the first show to address civil rights and racial inequalities.

Date: April 15
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Moody Music Building
Cost: $10 for adults, $5 for seniors, $3 for students
Sponsor: UA School of Music
Contact Info: uamusic.tix.com or 205-348-7111

The Alabama Symphonic Band will perform pieces honoring the desegregation struggle, including Michael Daugherty’s “Rosa Parks Boulevard,” featuring trombonists Dr. Jon Whitaker, Bruce Faske, and John Shanks; Mark Camphouse’s “A Movement for Rosa; and Ronald Lo Presti’s “Elegy for a Young American.” The concert will include a multimedia presentation highlighting the desegregation movement on The University of Alabama

Date: Friday, April 5, 2013
Time: 11 a.m.
Location: Child Development Research Center
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Department of Communicative Disorders
Contact Info: Marcia Hay-McCutcheon, mhaymccu@as.ua.edu 

Dr. Dolores Battle’s presentation will focus on understanding the historical data associated with Speech Language Pathology profession and the involvement of minority persons and understanding the demographic growth of the profession of Speech Language Pathology.

Battle received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts in 1963, a master’s degree from Buffalo State College in 1971, and a PhD from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1978. She became a fellow of the American Speech Language Hearing Association in 1983. From 2005 to 2007 she was the president of the American Speech Language Hearing Association.

This event is part of “Through the Doors,” a year-long series of activities and events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the desegregation of UA.

Date: Friday, April 5, 2013
Time:  all day event
Location: Room 110 AIME Building
Cost: free
Sponsor: Department of History, Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South
Contact info: Josh Rothman, 205-348-3818, Website, jrothman@bama.ua.edu

A one-day research conference will be held to consider integration and civil rights both in Alabama and in broad perspective. Leading scholars of the civil rights movement, along with graduate students doing exciting new work, will participate in the conference.

The morning panel, “Alabama and the Civil Rights Movement, 50 Years On,” will be held from 9:30-11:30 a.m. in AIME Room 110. Dr. Kari Frederickson, chair of the UA Department of History, will moderate. Panelists include B.J. Hollars, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; Hasan Jeffries, Ohio State University; and Jason Sokol, University of New Hampshire. Joseph Crespino of Emory University will provide comments.

The afternoon panel, “Integration in the United States, Broadly Considered,” will be held from 2-4 p.m. in AIME Room 110. Rob Riser of the University of West Alabama will moderate. Panelists include Dennis Deslippe, Franklin and Marshall College; Charles Martin, University of Texas-El Paso; and Joyce Baugh, University of Central Michigan. Francoise Hamlin of Brown University will provide comments.

Diane McWhorter, author of “Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution,” will deliver the keynote address at 5:15 p.m. in the Malone-Hood Plaza at Foster Auditorium. (Rain location will be Farrah Hall 120.)

Please join us for a talk, book signing, and reception for: The Desegregation of The University of Alabama and the fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa with author and UA Alum B.J. Hollars

Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Gorgas Library Room 250 
Cost: free 
Sponsor:  University of Alabama Libraries and the Summersell Center for the Study of the South
Contact info: Jessica Lacher-Feldman at JLF@ua.edu or 205-348-0500

Date: Friday, March 15, 2013
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: 208 Gordon Palmer
Cost: free
Sponsor: Department of Psychology
Contact info: Sheila Black, sbpsych31@aol.com 

A speaker and poster competition will be held to celebrate the way in which the inclusion of African-Americans and other diverse groups has enhanced the field of psychology. The events title hearkens back to George Wallace’s infamous quote, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever.” The program will open with a speaker who will focus on historical contributions of African-Americans to psychology and the role that psychology has played in facilitating racial harmony. Students will prepare posters that highlight the historical contributions of African-American psychologists and present them at a poster session, where student authors and their faculty mentors will present their work. Following the poster session, there will be a reception.

Date: March 13-14, 2013
Time:  Thursday, March 14 from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location: 205 Gorgas
Cost: free
Sponsor: College of Communication and Information Sciences
Contact info: Dr. Caryl Cooper, 348-5393, cooper@ua.edu 

The College of Communication and Information Sciences’ Communication and Diversity Forum will host its annual Discerning Diverse Voices: Symposium on Diversity Thursday, March 14 with a slate of poster, panel and research sessions. The poster session features the research of C&IS graduate students and doctoral candidates. Additionally, the keynote address features Birmingham News reporter Barnett Wright. Wright will discuss his book, “1963: How the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement Changed America and the World.” Dr. George Daniels will lead the audience in a discussion following Wright’s address.  A book signing will follow. Wright’s address is in conjunction with the journalism department’s J-Day program. 

Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Time: 6-8 p.m.
Location: Woodis-McDonald Auditorium, Graves Hall
Cost: free
Sponsor: College of Education
Contact Info: Rebecca Ballard, 205-348-7936, rebecca.ballard@ua.edu 

Dr. Joy Lawson Davis has more than 30 years of experience in gifted education as a teacher, administrator, writer, researcher and consultant to schools nationwide. Davis grew up in Newark, N.J., and later in King & Queen County, Va. In both of these very diverse environments she learned first-hand the struggles of African-Americans during a tumultuous period of race riots and school desegregation. A first-generation college graduate, she is deeply empathetic to the needs of culturally diverse students who seek out challenging academic environments to help them reach their potential.

Today, she is an assistant professor of education in curriculum and instruction and director of the Center for Gifted Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 2011, Davis published her first book, the award-winning “Bright, Talented & Black: A guide for families of African American gifted learners.” Davis earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from The College of William & Mary in Virginia and is now serving a three-year term as an at-large member of the board of directors of the National Association for Gifted Children. Before serving on the board of directors, she served two terms as chair of the National Association for Gifted Children’s Diversity & Equity Committee.

Date: Sunday, March 3, 2013
Time: Leaving from Tuscaloosa/Graves Hall at 10 a.m. Returning to Tuscaloosa/Graves Hall by 7 p.m.

Pre-March Rally
1:30–2:30 p.m.
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, 410 Martin Luther King Street

Bridge Crossing Re-Enactment
2:30–3:30 pm
Edmund Pettus Bridge

Post March Rally: Footsoldiers Hall of Fame
3:30–4:30 p.m.
Foot of Edmund Pettus Bridge

Location: Selma, Alabama
Cost: $15 per person (cash or check), reservation required. Space is limited. Reservation deadline: Feb. 25.
Sponsor: College of Education
Contact Info: Marylee Freeman, 348-5561, msfreeman1@bamaed.ua.edu, 202 Carmichael HallAlabama

Date: Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Theatre Ferguson Student Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: Fred Horn II, 205-705-0119, fredhorn2@gmail.com

The Sankofa African-American Heritage Program is a call-to-action production that consists of musical, dance and theatrical performances. The theme of the program this year is the crabs-in-a-barrel mentality juxtaposed to the Willie Lynch Doctrine. The message will address self-hatred and prejudice issues within the African-American community.

Date: Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: 205 Gorgas Library
Cost: Free
Sponsors: Honors College, Housing and Residential Communities, the Faculty in Residence Program, University Libraries, the Asian Studies Program, Department of History, Department of American Studies, the African American Studies Program

Contact Info: Dr. Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, 205-348-1805, aholmes12@as.ua.edu, http://honors.ua.edu/bookclub/

Pink Saris (UK/India, Dir. Kim Longinotto, 2010, 96 mins.)
After being married off as a child bride, Sampat Pal has struggled for agency and respect in her family, and has extended her call for women's rights to her broader community through creating the Pink Gang. This film follows Sampat in her role as a community mediator of everyday challenges faced by women in contemporary India.

Date:  Feb. 25, 2013
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Russell Hall Auditorium
Speaker: Andre Taylor, the first African-American National Alumni Association president
Cost: No cost
Sponsor: Black Student Union and the NAACP
Contact Info: Reava Vaughters, rlvaughters@crimson.ua.edu

Date: Friday, Feb. 22, 2013
Time: Airing 8-10 a.m.
Location: WVUA-FM 90.7
Cost: Free
Sponsors: College of Education and New College
Contact Info: cmchargh@bamaed.ua.edu, Carlton McHargh, Ph.D., 348-6073

Date: Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013
Time: Begins at noon
Location: Meet at the Rotunda of Reese Phifer Hall
Cost: Free
Sponsors: Department of Communication Studies
Contact Info: jason.black@ua.edu

Date: Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Location: 205 Gorgas Library
Cost: Free
Sponsors: Honors College, Housing and Residential Communities, the Faculty in Residence Program, University Libraries, the Asian Studies Program, Department of History, Department of American Studies, the African American Studies Program

In Search of Lin Zhao's Soul (China/US, Dir. Hu Jie, 2004, 115 mins.)
During China’s chaotic Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), Lin Zhao spoke up for civil rights, and was imprisoned and eventually died for them. Director Hu Jie recovers her story, and in doing so brings to light forgotten stories from this tumultuous period and the difficulties in accessing them.

On Feb. 11, the UA School of Social Work hosted guest speaker Lecia J. Brooks, outreach director of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Her address was titled “Fighting Hate, Teaching Tolerance, Seeking Justice: The Southern Poverty Law Center.” The event honored the late Dr. Ethel H. Hall, UA alumna and distinguished educator.

Realizing the Dream Theatrical Presentation “Ain’t Misbehavin’ ”
Date: Feb. 8-17, 2013
Time: Thursday–Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.
Location: Bean Brown Theatre, Shelton State Community College’s Martin Campus
Cost: $22 for adults, $18 for seniors and $14 for students and children

Contact info: www.theatretusc.com or 205-391-2277, http://communityaffairs.ua.edu/realizingthedream/theatrical-productions/
The 2013 theatrical presentation of the Realizing the Dream celebration will be Theatre Tuscaloosa’s production of “Aint Misbehavin’.” Harlem’s 1930’s Cotton Club lives on in this rollicking, finger-snapping musical revue that pays tribute to the jumpin’ jive swing of Thomas “Fats” Waller. Including popular songs like “Honeysuckle Rose,” “I Can't Give You Anything but Love,” “The Joint Is Jumpin’,” “Your Feet’s Too Big,” and more.  

The Martin Luther King Jr. Realizing the Dream Committee exists to raise consciousness about injustice and promote human equality, peace and social justice by creating educational and cultural opportunities for growth, empowerment and social change so that every person may experience the bounty of life’s abundant possibilities.

The Grammy-award winning group Take 6 and the Aeolians of Oakwood University highlighted the 24th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Realizing the Dream concert Jan. 19 at UA. Also that weekend, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Cynthia Tucker spoke at the annual awards banquet. To read more about this year’s Realizing the Dream events, click here.