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SUMMARY:Commemorative Day | Presidents’ Day
DESCRIPTION:This Presidents’ Day\, get more civically engaged through family-friendly activities! Write a letter to the new President of the United States to tell them what matters to you. Participate in arts-based activities and create a piece that reflects your social and political interests! \nIncluded with general admission\, which is FREE for IL residents on this day. \nSchedule\n10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. \nLetters to the President \nWrite a letter to President Donald J. Trump to let him know how you think he’s doing as president and what you would like to see him do in the future. If there are actions he’s taking that you support\, let him know that! If there are things in which you’d like to see him take a different approach\, this is a great way to have your voice heard\, too. All letters can either be taken home or left with CHM staff to be mailed out together to the White House. Appropriate for all ages\, especially 13+ \nMake-and-Take Campaign Signs and Buttons \nArt is a great way to strengthen one’s campaign efforts. Come make your own campaign signs and buttons as if you were running for the Office of the President of the United States of America! Design them in ways that reflect your values\, aesthetics\, and major topics of interest. Take them home as a souvenir or maybe even start your own future political campaign! Appropriate for all ages preschool and up. \nCommunity Response Activity – “If I Were President . . .” \nLeave a public message to other visitors about what sorts of issues you would focus on if you were president. What do you think is important to address as a nation today? How would you go about supporting our local\, national\, and international communities through presidential action? Appropriate for all ages\, especially 13+ \nWe’ll also have special gallery tours of our exhibitions throughout the day and IDEA stations to engage Chicago’s history in hands-on\, interactive ways!
URL:https://www.chicagohistory.org/event/commemorative-day-presidents-day/
LOCATION:Chicago History Museum\, 1601 N. Clark St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60614\, United States
CATEGORIES:Commemorative Day
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SUMMARY:Commemorative Day | Black History Month
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Black History Month at CHM as we look at the ways art has been a vehicle for social change in Chicago’s African American community. Enjoy hands-on arts activities\, music\, and speakers. \nSchedule\n10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. – Printmaking with Purpose with teaching artist Jomo Cheatham \n10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. – Arts and Crafts for Social Change \n12:00–1:00 p.m. – Public Talk | “Final Judgement: The Case of Emmett Till” by Dr. Christopher Benson \nLEARN MOREHear from Dr. Christopher Benson as he discusses details from his book A Few Days Full of Trouble: Revelations on the Journey to Justice for My Cousin and Best Friend\, Emmett Till\, coauthored with Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr. Get an insider’s view of the coauthors’ four-year “ride-along” with the FBI as it closed out the investigation into this 1955 lynching. The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till sparked the modern Civil Rights Movement\, yet so much has been concealed over the years. The case concerned so much more than racial violence\, it was about power and how the criminal justice system bent under the pressure of a corrupt system. \n1:30–2:30 p.m. – Film Screening | The Murder of Emmett Till (2023) \nLEARN MOREIn August 1955\, a 14-year-old Black boy allegedly flirted with a white woman in a grocery store in Money\, Mississippi. Emmett Till\, a teen from Chicago\, didn’t understand that he had broken the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South until three days later\, when two white men dragged him from his bed in the dead of night\, beat him brutally and then shot him in the head. Although his killers were arrested and charged with murder\, they were both acquitted quickly by an all-white\, all-male jury. Shortly afterwards\, the defendants sold their story\, including their tale of how they murdered Till\, to a journalist. The murder and the trial horrified the nation and the world. Till’s death was a spark that helped mobilize the civil rights movement. Three months after his body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River\, the Montgomery bus boycott began.
URL:https://www.chicagohistory.org/event/commemorative-day-black-history-month/
LOCATION:Chicago History Museum\, 1601 N. Clark St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60614\, United States
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