Michael Willrich, Leff Families Professor of History at Brandeis University, will present on his new book “American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century.”
A Time for Burning (Barbara Connell & Bill Jersey, 1967, 35mm, 58 mins)
New print! A Lutheran minister in Omaha attempts to integrate his all-white congregation in this Oscar-nominated documentary. In cinéma-vérité style, it “captures the enduring inflexibility of traditional institutions, and the sustained struggle and personal risk involved in transforming them” (Jared Eisenstat). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive. Co-presented with the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library as part of Yale’s celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Joan Countryman M.U.S. ’66 and Bruce Payne ’65 M.A. were students at Yale in the early/mid 1960s and both were active in the national civil rights movement. In this Mondays at Beinecke a week after Martin Luther King Day, they will discuss campus life in those years, an era when Dr. King himself came to Yale to preach in Battell Chapel in 1961 and to receive an honorary degree in 1964. Each will also share about their involvement in the civil rights movement.
A reading by Emily Wilson: Emily Wilson is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, holding the College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities. Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College B.A. in Classics and Corpus Christi College M.Phil. in Renaissance English Literature) and Yale University (Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature). She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance & Early Modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow.
Yale College Poets: an annual reading by outstanding undergraduate poets. This year’s poets: William An, Kanyinsola Anifowoshe, Lukas Bacho, Olivia Bell, Daniel Blokh, Nicole Dirks, David Donnan, Forrest LaPrade, John Nguyen, Awuor Onguru, and Nimran Shergill. Co-sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library and the Creative Writing Program of the Yale Department of English.
All are welcome to a special one-display of highlights of Beinecke Library collections related to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to the African American freedom movement on view for the holiday in the courtyard level reading room. You will be able to see an array of materials, many drawn from the library’s James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, that highlight Dr. King’s life, legacy, and impact, and the long civil rights movement in the United States. The display will also include materials about Black New Haven history.
An introductory tour of the Beinecke Library, its mission, history, architecture, collections, and services, led by a library staff or student guide. Tours last approximately 45 minutes. Reservations are not required. Note: see the library’s website (beinecke.library.yale.edu) for current public health protocols and other important visitor information.
An introductory tour of the Beinecke Library, its mission, history, architecture, collections, and services, led by a library staff or student guide. Tours last approximately 45 minutes. Reservations are not required. Note: see the library’s website (beinecke.library.yale.edu) for current public health protocols and other important visitor information.
