Joyner offers NEH exhibits and programs this fall

“For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights,” a nationally touring exhibition from the National Endowment for the Humanities On The Road program, is open now through Oct. 20 in Joyner Library’s Janice Hardison Faulkner Gallery. With a variety of complementary exhibits, speakers, and a theatre performance, there’s so much to see in conjunction with “For All the World to See.”

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Check out the offerings here:

“Dar He: The Story of Emmett Till”
Thursday, Sept. 19, 7 p.m, Wright Auditorium

* ECU students can receive a free ticket from the Central Ticket Office in the MCSC with their 1 Card.
Actor and playwright Mike Wiley brings Emmett Till’s story to the stage in this dramatization of the events surrounding Till’s murder.

https://artscomm.ecu.edu/dar-he/

Presented in partnership with the ECU College of Fine Arts and Communication.

Zena Howard, award-winning architect and principal at Perkins & Will, talks about urban design as urban healing
Thursday, Oct. 10, 6 p.m., Main Campus Student Center

Free!
Howard is the visionary designer of spaces including the Smithsonian’s National Museum ofAfrican American History and Culture and Greenville’s Sycamore Hill Gateway Plaza.

Presented in partnership with ECU’s Office of Equity and Diversity and the City of Greenville. Sponsored by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council.

Hank Klibanoff: “The Past is Never Dead: Civil Rights Cold Cases and Why They Matter”

Monday, Oct. 14, 4:30 p.m., Joyner Library Room 2409
Free!

Hank Klibanoff, a veteran journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for a book he co-wrote about the news coverage of the civil rights struggle in the South, is the creator and host of Buried Truths, a narrative history podcast produced by WABE (NPR) in Atlanta. The podcast, which won Peabody and Robert F. Kennedy awards in 2019, is drawn from the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project, which Klibanoff directs and teaches at Emory University in Atlanta.

COMPLEMENTARY EXHIBITS with PRIMARY SOURCES from our Collections

“Civil Rights in North Carolina: Eastern Perspective”
Third Floor, Sept. 1–Dec. 20
While much has been said about the Greensboro sit-ins in relation to civil rights activity in North Carolina, some of the state’s more historically intense and significant developments occurred in the heart of eastern North Carolina. The primary documents and news coverage included in the exhibit highlight prominent figures like Floyd McKissick, W.C. Chance and the “Great Agitator” himself, Golden A. Frinks, and events including the Williamston Freedom Movement of 1957-63, the Hyde County School boycott of 1969 and Greenville protests of 1969 and ’71. The exhibit also features a rare 1960 pamphlet touting the success of the state’s first lunch-counter desegregation in Winston-Salem (May 1960), two months before Greensboro.

“Words and Silences: Media and the Civil Rights Movement”
Fourth Floor, Sept. 1–Dec. 20
The media played an important role in the civil rights movement. Through the national news, the injustices against African Americans and their protests were brought into every living room. But even more telling than the news aired and reported is when and where there was silence. This exhibit focuses on the complexities of how the media helped and hindered the movement. The display includes books from the Gene Roberts Collection. Roberts and his co-author, Hank Klibanoff, won a Pulitzer Prize for their book “The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation.”

“The 10 Demands: ECU Student Activism During the Late 1960s”
First Floor, Oct. 1–Dec. 20
This exhibit highlights student activism on ECU’s campus during the late 1960s which emerged from grievances publicized by the institution’s African American student population. Using items from University Archives collections, this exhibit highlights the actions undertaken by African American students and their supporters, particularly the Society of United Liberal Students (SOULS) organization, against policies they viewed as unjust. By focusing on items from the period, viewers will be able to see the impact that student activism had on changing the culture on campus and providing more opportunities for African American students.