The Elmhurst Art Museum, in collaboration with the National Public Housing Museum, is hosting a special online program inviting visitors to hear about the “radical King.”
The program, streaming after 9 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 18, can be found then at the following link:
https://www.elmhurstartmuseum.org/events/the-chicago-freedom-movement-and-the-radical-king/
According to Museum Executive Director John McKinnon, the program will feature Mary Lou Finley, a member of King’s staff who worked with him during the Chicago Freedom Movement; Beverly Guy-Sheftall, founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center (since 1981) and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies at Spelman College; activist Bernardine Dohrn, a former leader of the Weather Underground who spent years on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List; and the Rev. Marshall Elijah Hatch Sr., of New Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago.
McKinnon said the King Day program connects with the Museum’s upcoming exhibit, In Focus: The Chicago Freedom Movement and the Fight for Fair Housing. That exhibit, planned for a March 4 opening, feature the photography of Bernie Kleina [sic], a Wheaton photographer and activist, along with projects by local teens, and more.
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