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Production Continues: Rosie Simpson Interview
Last week, we interviewed Rosie Simpson, a union organizer and CPS parent who was a key player in the 1963 Boycott. In August 1963, Ms. Simpson led a protest in Englewood at a construction site...
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Images of the 1963 Chicago Public School boycott taken by legendary photographer Art Shay have now been added to the website and will be used in our in-progress transmedia documentary project ’63...
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’63 Boycott Winter 2015 Update
Thanks to new funding from the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, ’63 Boycott is back in production and continuing to identify more particpants from the 1963 boycott in our photo gallery and letting...
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Thoughts from Boycott 1963: Sandra A. Murray
“I can remember a bit about the boycott but it has been a long time. My mother, Muggie Murray, was the driving force for us marching and she pushed us to be concerned about our education and to strive...
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Medill Elementary School Search
While for most people, it’s really hard to remember much about fifty years ago, some people have a gift. Recently, Derrick Brown was on our website and identified at least eleven students he knew from...
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63 Boycott Happenings November 2015
The quest to find boycott participants ramps up as we near our deadline for locating people to interview. We plan to finish interviews by March of 2016, so now’s the time to help us find people in the...
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Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay
(through December 19, 2015) Check out an entire wall of never-before-seen photos of the boycott taken by Art Shay. These photos are still not up on our website, but will be by next year. “The...
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The Problem We All Live With
Recently, This American Life tackled desegregation in schools. The two-part program details first an accidental desegregation program in Missouri, and then an intentional one in Connecticut. New York...
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Two Chicago Schools Inch Closer to Integration
Both the principals at Ogden Elementary and Jenner Elementary, on Chicago’s near north side, have come out in support of consolidating the two schools into one. While the student population at each...
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Is this Bernie Sanders being arrested?
While Bernie Sanders’ participation in the Civil Rights movement has been of some debate recently, many Chicagoans remember him as a student organizer at the University of Chicago in the early 60s....
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Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1963 Chicago School Boycott
While Martin Luther King, Jr. did not arrive to Chicago to organize until 1966, almost three years after the Great Chicago School Boycott, we know he met with some of the key organizers of the boycott...
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Making an Archival Film in the Digital Age
Wednesday, August 10th 5:30PM Expo 72, 72 E. Randolph St RSVP Filmmakers Gordon Quinn and Rachel Dickson will talk about their in-progress documentary ’63 Boycott, Kartemquin’s oldest film still...
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My Mother’s Fight for Education Rights: The Story of Jean Birkenstein Washington
Robin picketing and holding a poster his mother, Jean Birkenstein Washington, designed Growing up in the early 1960s, Robin Washington — now a daily newspaper editor and columnist and a producer —...
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This Saturday, November 19th, filmmakers Gordon Quinn and Rachel Dickson will lead a workshop at the Teachers for Social Justice Curriculum Fair. We will screen a recently updated work in progress of...
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A Call for Buttons And Posters!
Buttons and signs are a simple and powerful protest tool. We’ve found a lot of protest buttons and signs over the course of this project, both from the 60s and today. If you have any that have to do...
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Project Update!
Exciting news! We have finished a fine cut of ‘63 Boycott, and are incredibly close to completing the polishing touches and sharing this film with the world. The documentary is still a 30-minute film...
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What did protesters do after the boycott?
Jill Willis was an elementary school student when her mother took her to participate in the 1963 school boycott. Jill retired, but hasn’t been able to stay away from work that makes a difference. This...
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Dianne Dickson and father, Joseph S. Dickson in Kenwood
Dianne Dickson’s father, Joseph S. Dickson, moved his family to Chicago the summer of 1963. Their family moved so that Mr. Dickson could become the rector at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Kenwood. As...
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’63 Boycott Anniversary Weekend Premiere- October 21 and October 22 Screenings
Saturday, October 21 1pm Rainbow/PUSH 930 East 50th Street Free and open to the public. RSVP here. Sunday, October 22 3:30pm AMC River East 322 E Illinois St. Chicago International Film Festival Buy...
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’63 Boycott World Premiere
On October 22nd, 2017, the 54th anniversary of the great Chicago School boycott, we premiered ’63 Boycott to a sold-out audience at Chicago International Film Festival. Six of the film subjects came...
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