On October 23, 2003 The HistoryMakers hosted the 2nd installment of its Meet The HistoryMakers: A Day of Education at The DePaul University Conference Center in Chicago, Illinois.
Meet The HistoryMakers: A Day of Education was conceived as a day of seminars designed to expose public school teachers, librarians and students to the educational resources created by The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive.
Attendees experience first person testimony from notable HistoryMakers, oral history workshops and training, computer labs and innovative and interactive curriculum. Meet The HistoryMakers: A Day of Education was truly a unique educational opportunity.
Panelists for this program included:
| Opening Ceremony Julieanna L. Richardson, Founder of The HistoryMakers, Patricia Andrews-Keenan, Vice President of Public Affairs, Comcast and Taylor Moore |
Searching HistoryMakers Interviews Michael Frisch of SUNY Buffalo and Randforce Associates |
| Community Leadership: Beyond the Call of Duty Robert Jordan, WGN TV Chicago (Moderator) Dorothy Runner, Founding member of the South Side Auxiliary of Planned Parenthood Rev. Addie Wyatt, Labor/Women’s Rights Leader Jacky Grimshaw, Organizer for Harold Washington Patricia Hill, Executive Director of the African American Police League |
Spiritual Involvement: My Life Story Cynthia Moreland, The HistoryMakers, Regional Coordinator, Southeast (Moderator) Rev. Calvin Morris, Activist Rev. Al Sampson, Civil Rights Activist Rev. Henry Soles, Senior Chaplain of the Chicago Bulls Rev. Marion Roddy-Hart, (State College, PA), Albright Bethune United Methodist Church. |
| I Want to be an Entrepreneur Dorothy Tucker, WBBM-TV Chicago (Moderator) Alisa Starks, CEO of Inner City Entertainment, Inc. William Bonaparte, President and CEO of Bonaparte Corporation. |
Influential Artists and Their Lives Charles Thomas, ABC 7 Chicag (Moderator) Paul Goodnight (Boston) Artist; Ausbra Ford, Sculptor and Author Geraldine McCullough, Sculptor |
| True Vine - The Story of John Fountain John Fountain, journalist, author, and visiting scholar at Northwestern University |
What's My Story - Your Story? Larry Crowe, interviewer for The HistoryMakers |
| Why I Chose to be a Public Servant Sabrina L. Miller, The Chicago Tribune (Moderator) Richard Hatcher (Gary, IN), Former Mayor of Gary, Indiana Lawyer Bobbie Steele, Cook County (Illinois) Commissioner Roland Burris, Former Illinois State’s Attorney General Monique Davis, Illinois State Representative. |
Providing Hope Through Education Will LaVeist, Executive Producer of BlackVoices.com (Moderator) Zerrie Campbell, President of Malcolm X College Warrick Carter, President of Columbia College of Chicago Charles Henry, Chairman, Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley |
| Military HistoryMakers: African Americans in WWII William H. Smith, (Sudbury, MA) Media Consultant, Filmmaker and Educator |
Blues Appreciation Fernando Jones, Founder of Blues Kids of America |
| A Career in Justice Curtis Lawrence, The Chicago Sun-Times (Moderator) Hon. Blanche Manning, United States District Judge D’Army Bailey (Memphis), Circuit Court Judge Hon. Earl Strayhorn, Lawyer and Judge |
Interviewing the MediaMakers Mary Mitchell of The Chicago Sun-Times (Moderator) Harry Porterfield, Television Personality, ABC 7 Chicago Don Wycliff, The Chicago Tribune Dorothy Leavell, Publisher of The Chicago Crusader |
| Literature, Poetry, Prose, the Pen Roger Crockett, Business Week (Moderator) Useni Eugene Perkins, Playwright/Poet Sterling Plumpp, Poet/Essayist Salim Muwakkil, Senior Editor of In These Times, columnist The Chicago Tribune. |
Hands-On Photography Louis Byrd, CABJ, Freelance Photojournalist (Moderator) Jason Miccolo Johnson (Washington, D.C.), Photographer Eric Werner, Photographer |
| Blues in the Schools Shirley King, International Touring Artist and Daughter of B.B. King Joy Davis, Extensive Performance Solutions |
Art as a Force for Community Development Salim Muwakkil, In These Times and The Chicago Tribune (Moderator) Joan Gray, MUNTU Dance Theatre of Chicago Okoro Harold Johnson, Founder of ETA Creative Arts Foundation |
| The World of Finance: How I Got My Start
Evelyn Holmes, ABC-7 TV Chicago (Moderator) Walter Clark, Financial Consultant, Clark Consulting Company H. Marrel Foushee (Washington, D.C.), Entrepreneur |
Education and Advocacy Curtis Lawrence, The Chicago Sun-Times (Moderator) Iva Carruthers, Educator, Entrepreneur, Pan-Africanist, Minister Barbara Bowman, Early Education Expert and Advocate Wayne Watson, Chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago |
