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Coming in 2004 2004 is an exciting year for The HistoryMakers! Events are planned nearly every month in locations across the country as we make a strong push to develop a national presence. January Coca-Cola Luncheon On Wednesday, January 28th, Senior Vice President of Coca- Cola Ingrid Saunders Jones of the Coca-Cola Corporation hosted a luncheon to introduce The HistoryMakers to the Atlanta corporate community. Executive Director Julieanna Richardson, Atlanta Regional Coordinator Cynthia Moreland, and Frances Thompkins, also of Coca-Cola and over 100 members of the Atlanta corporate community were in attendance at Paschal’s Restaurant, when The HistoryMakers announced its plans to bring its signature program, An Evening With… to Atlanta. February Christine King Farris The HistoryMakers featured Christine King Farris, the older sister of Martin Luther King, Jr., as part of a tour to promote her newly published children’s book, My Brother Martin. Farris had scheduled appearances at the Latin School of Chicago and the Francis Parker School on February 12th, and Morgan Park and Jenner Academy on February 13th. photographed and profiled in the annual calendar recognizing accomplished African Americans. Receptions will be held in Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, New Jersey and Dallas. Regional Salutes to The HistoryMakers will be held across the country during 2004 thanks to Hilton Hotels Corporation who is underwriting the events and McDonalds Corporation who is serving as one of the awards sponsors. Salutes will be held in Chicago, Washington D.C., New York and Los Angeles in 2004. Tickets to attend the Salutes are available for $250.00 per person. March On March 13th, Chicago HistoryMakers will be saluted from 6 p.m.-10 p.m. in the Red Lacquer Room at the Palmer House Hilton. The evening will feature food, dancing, footage from The HistoryMakers archives and an awards presentation. Entertainment will be provided by Sue Conway and Trio. Contact The HistoryMakers for more information at (312) 674-1900 or at info@thehistorymakers.com. April On April 30th, at the Washington Hilton, The HistoryMakers will pay tribute to our Washington, D.C. HistoryMakers, featuring an evening of food and entertainment as a part of this awards ceremony. Vernon Jordan is serving as event chair with Congressman John Lewis and former Congressman J.C. Watts as honorary co-chairs. Desegregation and the Arts May Speak Out Throughout Black History Month, HistoryMakers will be featured as part of The HistoryMakers Education Institute Black History Month program, Speak Out. Throughout the month of February, receptions and awards presentations hosted by AllState will honor HistoryMakers featured in AllState’s 2004 “From Whence We Came” calendar. HistoryMakers in the fields of science and medicine, dubbed “Pathfinders of the Future,” were In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education landmark judicial decision ending segregation, The HistoryMakers has teamed up with the Illinois Humanities Council and Harris Bank to present, “Desegregation and the Arts” on May 13th at the Harris Bank Auditorium. The program features director Lloyd Richards, playwright Suzan- Lori Parks and poet Amiri Baraka in a discussion moderated by Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Dean of Liberal Arts at Columbia College Chicago. June Also as part of the Illinois Humanities Council’s year-long series celebrating the Brown v. Board anniversary, a program 14 The HistoryMakers Winter 2004
on June 17th will feature “Personal Stories of Struggle and Survival.” Young people from the “Teen Chicago” project at the Chicago Historical Society will conduct their own oral history interviews of HistoryMakers who were activists during the integration of America’s schools. They will share their projects with an audience at the Chicago Historical Society. The HistoryMakers hallmark program, An Evening With… celebrity interview is going on the road! For the first time, we will be holding the event in Atlanta, Georgia. Be sure to check our website for more details. July Pre-eminent African American tap dancer, Dr. Jeni LeGon will delight Chicago audiences on July 29th in a live public program at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. LeGon’s career started in her late teens when she became a dancer in the Count Basie chorus line in Chicago. LeGon caught the eye of Hollywood and was cast in a series of musicals, becoming the first black woman to sign a multipicture contract with a studio. Over the years, she appeared in films with Cab Calloway, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Fats Waller. LeGon now lives and teaches dance in Vancouver, British Columbia. Following a screening of the BBC film, “Jeni LeGon: Living in a Great Big Way,” detailing her remarkable life story, LeGon will speak on her Hollywood life and career. September The New York-area Salute to The HistoryMakers including interviews conducted in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Providence and Martha’s Vineyard will be held in September at the New York Hilton. October The HistoryMakers’ 5th annual celebrity interview event will be held on October 22nd in Chicago! Who will be the honoree and interviewer this year Stay tuned for more details!!! November The Los Angeles Salute to The HistoryMakers will be held in November at a Hilton Hotels Corporation facility in Beverly Hills. Recent Grant Announcements The HistoryMakers received a grant of $25,000 from the Boulé Foundation of Sigma Pi Phi fraternity in support of its continuing efforts to record “stories of success” across the country. The HistoryMakers would like to thank Reverend Calvin Pressley, Manford Byrd, Dr. Payton Williams and the Executive Committee of the Boulé Foundation for this award. In September 2003, The HistoryMakers was awarded a National Leadership Grant of $163,600 from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences.The grant is for our efforts in the preservation and digitization of The HistoryMakers archives and the development of a new digital archive that is unlike any other, allowing users to search through The HistoryMakers’ interviews for specific topics. The goal is to transcribe and digitize 400 current interviews for use with this digital archive prototype. Facts you should know about The HistoryMakers website … • Receives over 2 million hits per month. • Visitors from over 100 foreign countries with the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Canada consistently ranking in the top ten of domain origins each month. Also, Lithuanian visitors average 197.5 pages per visit. • Visitors from over 100 different colleges and universities with UCLA visitors averaging 59.3 pages per visit, more than any other school. • Public school teachers and students from more than 30 states are regular users with the school districts in Chicago, Kentucky, Missouri, New York and New Jersey using the content for instructional purposes. • Visitors from over a dozen federal government agencies including repeat visits from the United States House of Representatives and Senate; over 2,000 views by individuals in all branches of the military as well as NASA, the Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury and the National Institutes of Health. • Use by newsgathering agencies like WGN, CBS, ABC, NBC and the BBC and cultural institutions like the Field Museum in Chicago and the National Underground Freedom Center in Cincinnati. • Linkages by hundreds of other websites including several in foreign countries, National Public Radio, PBS, Harvard University, the University of Michigan and Chevron-Texaco. • Typical visitors look for information on a specific person and are directed straight to that bio. • Average visitor looks at 4 pages per visit. www.thehistorymakers.com 1900 S. Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60616 312-674-1900 • 312-674-1915(fax) The HistoryMakers Winter 2004 15
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