• Exhibit Closing Night: (5:30 to 6:45 pm) Your last chance to view AAU’s exhibit, We Cannot Keep Silent, at the Philadelphia Folklore Project (735 S. 50th Street).  Curated by Helen Gym, Ellen Somekawa and Joanie May Cordova. Featuring photos by Harvey Finkle and Kathy Shimizu, first person voices of boycott participants, and oral histories.

• Special Public Forum on the Shifting Politics of Race:
  (7:00 pm): Please walk around the corner and participate in the public forum at Cedar Works (4919 Pentridge Street). Speaker presentations followed by dialogue time. Light Refreshments will be served.

Speakers:

Scott Kurashige, Ph.D: Asian American Movements, Anti-Asian Violence & the Intersection with African American History

& 

John Elliott Churchville, Ph.D., J.D.: African American Movements in Philadelphia & the Intersection with Asian American History

About Our Speakers:

 

Scott Kurashige: 

Detroit activist and Professor of Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies & African American Studies at the University of Michigan, Scott is the author of The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles and the co-author with Grace Lee Boggs of The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century. Scott has been involved in Detroit Summer, the Detroit Asian Youth Project, and the Boggs Center.

John Churchville:

Author, community activist, leadership coach, theologian, and attorney, John organized with SNCC in Southwest Georgia and the Mississippi Delta, and then came back up north to found the Freedom Library here in Philadelphia. He has been active since the 1960s and is the head of Liberation Fellowship Community Development Corporation and President of the Greater Germantown Business Association, Inc.

This project has been supported in part by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, the Federal-State Partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.  

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About The Exhibit: We Cannot Keep Silent

In December 2009, dozens of Asian immigrant students boycotted their high school and launched a civil rights campaign around a district’s responsibility to provide a safe educational climate. Asian Americans United and partners curate an exhibit featuring voices from a campaign that sought educational justice in a school struggling with violence and racial discord.

We Cannot Keep Silent was developed in partnership with the Philadelphia Folklore Project. 

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