All Events
- February 21
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Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lectures Program
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Julian Bond, chair of the NAACP and a national figure in the civil rights movement for more than 40 years, delivered the 2007 Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture before an audience of more than 500. He also held a question and answer session with students and faculty on Feb. 22.
- March 21
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Racial Attitudes Survey
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Results of the fourth annual Racial Attitudes Survey, which included two questions regarding the perceived impact of the desegregation of Little Rock Central High, were released. Racial Attitudes in Pulaski County: Focus on Education, a report on Economic Differences Between Blacks and Whites included the questions to mark the 50th anniversary of the landmark events in 1957, to acknowledge their importance and investigate their influence.
- April 3
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Evenings with History Lecture
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“Why It Happened Here: The Little Rock School Crisis vs. the Crisis at Central High, 1954-59” — C. Fred Williams, UALR History Institute
Held at the Historic Arkansas Museum in downtown Little Rock. - August 15 - October 10
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Exhibit
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UALR Gallery I, II, & III will be spotlighting figurative artworks by contemporary black artists. Taking Possession is curated by Brad Cushman, UALR Gallery director, in collaboration with Nathan Larson, UALR assistant curator.
Featured artists include: Faith Ringgold, Robert Colescott, Whitfield Lovell, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Kerry James Marshall, Deborah Roberts, Lawrence Lee, Fahamu Pecou, Laylah Ali, Aminah Robinson, Derrick Adams, Nick Cave, Kara Walker, Larry Walker, Lorna Simpson, Annette Lawrence, Kerry James Marshall, Carrie Mae Weems, Keba Konte, Deborah Grant, Keith Smith, Jonathan Calm, Hank Willis Thomas, Kambui Olujimi, Bradley McCallum, Jacqueline Tarry, and Howardena Pindell.
Generous support for Taking Possession provided by: UALR Friends of the Arts, Jackye and Curtis Finch, UALR Office of Campus Life, and Wright, Lindsey and Jennings.
- September 6 - 8
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International Symposium
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The history departments at UALR and the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville are sponsoring The Little Rock School Crisis of 1957: An International Symposium featuring more than 50 local, national and international historians. The symposium will be held at the Doubletree Hotel in Little Rock.
National Public Radio Senior Correspondent Juan Williams, author of Thurgood Marshal’s biography, will present the keynote address at 7 p.m. Session topics will include: “Civil Rights and National Memory;” “Race Before Little Rock;” “The Little Rock Crisis and Modern Republicanism;” “Equality, Self-Interest & Motivation;” “Consequences: White Flight, Resegregation, Affirmative Action;” “Did the Lack of Black Religious Leadership in Little Rock Matter? A Comparative Perspective;” “Constitutionalism in Crisis;” “Varieties of Southern Moderation;” “The Varieties of Segregationism;” “Civil Rights and the Labor Movement;” “Political Power and the Vote;” “Physical Bodies, Sense, and Sex;” and a showing of The Lost Year, Little Rock Schools 1958-1959.
C. Fred Williams, professor of history at UALR, and David Chappell, professor of history at the University of Arkansas, are co-hosting the event. Cost of the entire event is $50. Teachers can attend for $25 and admission is free for students. Program information is available by emailing cfwilliams@ualr.edu or calling 501.569.8782.
- September 6
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Artist Panel and Reception
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3:30–4:45 p.m. - Taking Possession Artist Panel, Stella Boyle Concert Hall
5–7 p.m. - Gallery Reception for Taking Possession, UALR Fine Arts building
- September 6
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Documentary
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The Art Department and Office of Campus Life are sponsoring a showing of a documentary Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin to be shown at noon in the Donaghey Student Center Room C and at 7 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. The definitive film is a biography of one of the most controversial figures of the Civil Rights Movement. He was one of the first freedom riders, an advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King and A. Philip Randolph, and organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Rustin was denied his place in the limelight for one reason - he was gay. Learn more about the life of this complex, multi-talented essential figure in the history of the Black Struggle and American radicalism. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 501.569.3308 for information.
- September 17
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African American Art Songs
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The UALR Performing Arts Series will kick off its 2007-2008 season with an Artspree concert featuring Jeanine Wagner, a soprano, and pianist Margaret Simmons who will be performing a recital of African American art songs. Wagner and Simmons have spent the last several years uncovering and compiling unknown works by African American composers and are experts in this genre of classical art song.
7:30 p.m. Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall
Tickets are $20 for orchestra seating, $17 balcony, $10 non-UALR students with ID, and free for UALR students. Contact the Artspree office for information at 501.569-3288.
- September 20 - 21
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Symposium
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The William H. Bowen School of Law and the Clinton School of Public Service are co-sponsoring a symposium regarding the Central High School Crisis from the perspective of the social and legal struggle it represented as well as how it fits into the national dialogue on unified educational systems. Speakers include:
- Charles J. Ogletree Jr., Founding and Executive Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute on Race and Justice, Harvard Law School
- Wendy Parker, Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law
- Elizabeth Jacoway
- Tony Freyer, Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law
- Judith Kilpatrick, Professor of Law, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
- Judge Wiley A. Branton Jr.
- Johanna Lewis, Professor, UALR History Department
- Associate Justice of Arkansas Supreme Court Robert L. Brown.
Contact Gwen Stanley, 501.324.9896 or gsstanley@ualr.edu.
- September 25
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The Legacy Project
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The Arkansas Repertory Theatre has partnered with Central High School and UALR to present “It Happened in Little Rock,” a play with music based on The Legacy Project about the 1957 desegregation crisis scene and its legacy for America. For more information, contact Leslie Golden, associate producer at 501.378-0445, ext. 210 or lgolden@therep.org.