There are a few upcoming brown bag events and speakers.
“Huelga!: Latino Labor and Poster Art”
Diana Rivera, librarian
Cesar Chavez Collection, Michigan State University Library
12:15 - 1:30 p.m., Nov. 3, MSU Museum Auditorium
Co-sponsored by the Chicano/Latino Studies Program and the Julian Samora Research Institute
“Latino Auto Workers: From the Margins to the Core”
Ruben Martinez and Daniel Velez
Julian Samora Research Institute
Michigan State University
12:15 - 1:30 p.m., Nov. 14, MSU Museum Auditorium
Co-sponsored by the Chicano/Latino Studies Program, the Julian Samora Research Institute and Motorcities/The Automobile National Heritage Area
“Building Affirmative Action from the Ground Up: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the Construction Industry”
David Hamilton Golland, Department of History
Governors State University
12:15 - 1:30 p.m., Nov. 21, MSU Museum Auditorium
Co-sponsored by MSU African American and African Studies, the MSU Center for Gender in Global
Arpillera exhibit to open in the LookOut! Gallery at RCAH
An exhibition of Chilean arpilleras will be featured at the Lookout! Gallery of the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities from Nov. 3-21, 2014. Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives is proud to be one of the co-sponsors of this Project 60/50 exhibit.
An opening reception will take place from 4-5:30 p.m. on Nov. 4 featuring Eliana Loveluck, who helped build the collection of arpilleras, along with artists Sally Thielen and Susan Clinthorne. Other events related to the exhibit are listed on the attached postcard.
The RCAH LookOut! Art Gallery is open M-F, 12-3 p.m. All events are free and open to the public.
Great civil rights panel planned for Nov. 12
“Protest, Power & Perseverance: Women in the Civil Rights Movement”
11:45 a.m.- 1:15 p.m., Nov. 12, International Center, Room 303
A panel of four local women will talk about the lives of women who were active in the Civil Rights Movement and share accounts of women's roles in the fight for equality. The panel will include Jewell Debnam who recently gave an Our daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bag on the experience of African American women in the 1960’s struggle for a health care union in Charleston, South Carolina. Other panelists include Dr. Freya Anderson Rivers, author of "Swallowed Tears: A Memoir" and first black woman to enroll at Louisiana State University in 1964; Dr. Eva Evans, 24th International President of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., and past Chairman of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights and Carmen Benavides, Retired Lansing School District Principal.
This Project 60/50 event is sponsored by the MSU Women’s Resource Center, the Center for Gender in Global Context and the American Association of University Women.
Refreshments provided. RSVP Required; please e-mail wrc@msu.eduor call 517-353-1635.