Poverty, Promise, and Possibility
Dear Friends of the Civic Knowledge Project--Please do check out this wonderful story about our great CKP friend and supporter, Timuel D. Black, who was featured on the UChicago homepage: A Lifetime Championing Civil Rights. All of us at the CKP take great pride in having helped build this relationship between UChicago and Prof. Black, with whom we began working over a decade ago. At that time, we scarcely dared to hope that UChicago would accord him such recognition, which was already long overdue. But it is truly wonderful to see that in recent years he has begun to be rightly honored in this way. He is the living memory of the South Side of Chicago.
Poverty, Promise, and Possibility: Chicago, Justice, and the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Civic Knowledge Project has for many years been deeply devoted to studying and celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Working closely with Chicago’s South Side legend, the great civil rights activist and oral historian Timuel D. Black, who worked directly with Dr. King and helped organize the March on Washington, the CKP has initiated and supported a wide range of projects designed to research the roots of Dr. King’s philosophy of nonviolence and his role in the civil rights movement, and to call attention to the ongoing relevance of his life and work, with a special emphasis on his connections to the City of Chicago. “Civic Knowledge,” in Chicago, ought to accord a special and prominent place to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who brought his movement here in 1966.
In keeping with this priority, the CKP is bringing together various elements of its Poverty, Promise, and Possibility initiative and a number of projects expressly concerned with the historical and contemporary significance of the work of Dr. King. The Poverty, Promise, and Possibility initiative has evolved from a complex UChicago collaboration highlighting poverty research of special relevance to Chicago, into a curricular package of courses, lectures and activities serving the CKP’s many community partners. The work of this initiative is very much a continuation of the thinking that led Dr. King to devote himself to a Poor People’s Campaign, and to expand his vision of social justice. And it complements the various research projects and educational programs that the CKP is supporting in collaboration with Prof. Black and other leading community figures working to advance the legacy of Dr. King.
Please do get involved with our efforts! Please contact CKP Director Bart Schultz, at rschultz@uchicago.edu or 773-834-3929, if you would like to participate in any or all of the following activities:
- The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Tour—Led every year by Prof. Timuel D. Black in Connection with MLK Day
- The Bronzeville Experience Tour—Led twice a year by Prof. Timuel D. Black to Celebrate the History of Chicago’s South Side
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Philosophy Workshops at the Timuel D. Black Edible Arts Garden, located at 5710 S. Woodlawn, and other South Side locations
The Prof. Timuel D. Black Bridges of Memory Distinguished Guest Lecture and Jazz Concert
AND FOR VIDEOS OF PREVIOUS EVENTS, PLEASE VISIT OUR MEDIA PAGE: http://civicknowledge.uchicago.edu/media.shtml
