All episodes of African American legacy

Timuel Black: ‘I’m not ready to go anywhere yet’

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. At age 95, Timuel Black, AM’54, believes his work to carry on the dream of Martin Luther King Jr. is far from over.

Published 10/20/14

Timuel Black: Working with Martin Luther King Jr.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Timuel Black, AM’54, helped organize Freedom Trains, filled with thousands of Chicagoans, who heard Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C.

Published 10/20/14

Timuel Black: Cheating death during World War II

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Timuel Black, AM’54, remembers how “the flip of a coin” may have saved him from death on the beaches of Normandy—and how his mother’s words helped him endure the horrors of World War II.

Published 10/20/14

Timuel Black: Growing up in Chicago’s “Black Belt”

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Timuel Black, AM’54, recalls how growing up in the “Black Belt” on the South Side of Chicago was like growing up “in a city within a city.”

Published 10/20/14

Timuel Black: World War II spurred career in civil rights

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Timuel Black, AM’54, remembers how visiting the Buchenwald concentration camp evoked memories of his enslaved ancestors and cast his career on a path toward ensuring equal rights for all.

Published 10/20/14

The 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, delivers the 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture, in honor of the late George E. Kent, who was one of the earliest tenured African...

Published 03/15/13

The 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture (audio)

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, delivers the 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture, in honor of the late George E. Kent, who was one of the earliest tenured African...

Published 03/15/13

African American legacy

Published 08/09/10

University of Chicago Faculty Roundtable Panel