THE DUSABLE.

MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

JUNE 2012

WHATS HAPPENING AT THE DU IN JUNE

JUNE 10

SANKOFAA MISSION FILM MOVIES WITH

2:00PM - 4:00PM Admission: FREE language of their West African enslaved ancestors. Turners research produced a living treasury of previously unknown traditions, songs, and folkways that also uncovered and illuminated the connections with West African and Afro-Brazilian communities. On view are rare photographs, recordings, and artifacts collected by Turner from those Gullah communities in the United States, Brazil, and West Africa. Organized by Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum

THE DUSABLE MUSEUM WOMENS BOARD PRESENTS: THE DUSABLE PRESENTS,

THE SOUNDS OF HISTORY: JAZZ CONCERT SERIES

5:30PM-8:30PM

Time: 5:00PM 9:00PM Tickets are $40.00 For more information call 773 947-0600 A great evening of entertainment featuring:

CLUB DELISA AT THE DU

MOVIES IN THE PARK AT THE DU!

A unique and disturbing journey of discovery into the history and living consequences of one of the United States most shameful episodes slavery. Katrina Browne discovered that her slavetrading ancestors from Rhode Island were not an aberration. Rather, they were just the most prominent actors in the Norths vast complicity in slavery, buried in myths of Northern innocence. Browne a direct descendant of Mark Anthony DeWolf, the first slaver in the family took the unusual step of writing to 200 descendants, inviting them to journey with her from Rhode Island to Ghana to Cuba and back, recapitulating the Triangle Trade that made the DeWolfs the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. Nine relatives signed up. Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North is Brownes spellbinding account of the journey that resulted.

BUCK AND THE PREACHER

Saturday, June 16 Time: 5:30PM-10:00PM Admission: FREE

June 20 Free Admission Concessions, and Showtime:

KCR ENSEMBLE NAJWA DANCE CORPS CHORUS LINE, MR. TAPS, KHALIDAH AND SHIRLEY MOMS MAYBE WHITMORE

MOVIES IN THE PARK AT THE DU!

Friday, June 29 Time: 5:30PM-10:00PM Admission: FREE

AKEELAH AND THE BEE

Free Popcorn, Food Vendors, Free Museum Tours & Performances Experience the DuSable Mobile Museum. Come early & bring your lawn chairs/ blankets for free movies in the park! At the end of the Civil War, AfricanAmerican ex-soldier Buck is looking for places in the West where former slaves can settle. But an unprincipled man named Deshay is working with his ruthless gang of outlaws to try to stop Bucks work and keep the people working as slaves in Louisiana. When Buck meets a con man in disguise who is calling himself The Preacher, the two men band together to stop Deshay and his gang. This film features Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell, Julie Robinson and Denny Miller.
Movies in the Parks is sponsored in part by: Chicago Park District, Charter One, Willie B. Cochran 20th Ward Alderman, Washington Park Consortium, and the DuSable Museum of African American History

SAX IN THE CITY: A TRIBUTE TO VON FREEMAN

Featuring Chicagos finest contemporary saxophone players Ray Silkman, Skinny Williams & Audley Reid.

Free Popcorn, Food Vendors, Free Museum Tours & Performances. Experience the DuSable Mobile Museum. Come early & bring your lawn chairs/ blankets for free movies in the park! organizations to share their history and offer insight on the responsibility of maintaining the mission of their founders, as well as the daily task of promoting and demonstrating sisterhood.

EXHIBIT OPENING

Sponsored in part by Fifth Third Bank.

WORD,DOW TURNERSONG: SHOUT, LORENZO

CONNECTING COMMUNITIES THROUGH LANGUAGE
June 15 thru September 30, 2012 This exhibition documents the historical journey made by people from Africa to the Americas, along with their language and music. In the 1930s, Lorenzo Dow Turner discovered that the Gullah people of Georgia and South Carolina retained parts of the culture and

AKEELAH AND THE BEE is the inspirational story of Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer), an eleven-year-old girl from south Los Angeles with a gift for words. Despite the objections of her mother Tanya (Angela Bassett), Akeelah enters various spelling contests, for which she is tutored by the forthright Dr. Larabee (Laurence Fishburne); her principal Mr. Welch (Curtis Armstrong) and the proud residents of her neighborhood. Akeelahs aptitude earns her an opportunity to compete for a spot in the National Spelling Bee and, in turn, unites her neighborhood who witness the courage and inspiration of one amazing little girl.
Movies in the Parks is sponsored in part by: Chicago Park District, Charter One, Willie B. Cochran 20th Ward Alderman, Washington Park Consortium, and the DuSable Museum of African American History

Von Freeman

VISIT WWW.DUSABLEMUSEUM.ORG FOR MORE INFORMATION. (773) 947-0600 740 E 56TH PLACE IN CHICAGO