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Black Martyr's Weekend, 1971 Item Info
- Title:
- Black Martyr's Weekend, 1971
- Creator:
- Office of College Relations
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Description:
- Dick Gregory speaking at the Black Martyr's Weekend, 1971. The 1971 Black Martyr's Weekend featured a full schedule including a “Soul Food Bazaar”, film screenings of “The Olive Tree of Justice” and “Viridiana”, a concert by The Impressions, Poetry and dramatic readings by actress Val Gray Ward, a lecture by Black nationalist Christian minister The Rev. Albert B. Cleage, Jr., a performance of "The Lion Writes” by the Cleveland theater group The Karamu Players, a performance by CBS, and a lecture with activist and comedian Dick Gregory. Gregory ended his lecture with the quote:”You have the all-important job of returning sanity to an insane society … The . . . thing you young folks have that scares us old folks is your moral force.” (S&B April 9, 1971 pg 3). Cleage focused his lecture on the stages of revolution, stating that “First, you cry out. Then you hit at the nearest point of irritation”(S&B April 9, 1971 pg 3).
- Subjects:
- Life at Grinnell for Black Students Concerned Black Students (CBS)
- Location:
- Herrick Chapel
- Latitude:
- 41.74759389
- Longitude:
- -91.72195262
- Source:
- Grinnell College
- Source Identifier:
- grinnell:5760
- Type:
- Image;StillImage
- Format:
- image/tiff
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Black Martyr's Weekend, 1971", The Burling Library Takeover & The Creation of The Black Library, Grinnell College Libraries
- Reference Link:
- /items/grinnell_5760.html
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- Rights:
- Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.).