IUB Libraries present a MLK Holiday Film Festival and Speaker Series: 

MLK Holiday Film Festival 

When:   Monday, January 17
Time:    10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: Main Library Media Showing Room (E174)

The Blackboard Jungle
10:00 am - 11:45 am

Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford), an incoming English teacher at North Manual High School, is an idealist who knows how to handle himself in a dark alley.  Dadier stands his ground and earns the begrudging respect of school thugs led by Vic Marrow and Sidney Poitier.

The Defiant Ones
11:45 am - 1:30 pm

This 1958 variation on Huck Finn's adventures with Jim finds a white convict (Tony Curtis) chained to a black convict (Sidney Poitier) as they both escape their captors.  With each man literally stuck with the other, racial conflicts take a back seat to survival.

Carmen Jones
1:35 pm - 3:20 pm

Straight-arrow Joe (Harry Belafonte), and obedient corporal on a Southern military base during World War II, is all set to go to flight school and marry his hometown sweetie, Cindy Lou (Olga James), when his troublemaking sergeant orders him to accompany Carmen to a civilian court.  In short order, Joe is swept up in Carmen's anarchy and her craving for release from lousy options in life.  An impulsive act of violence ensures that Joe's future is gone forever, putting Carmen in the difficult position of destroying their relationship to save him.

A Raisin in the Sun
3:30 pm - 5:40 pm

Sidney Poitier heads a fine cast in the story of an African American family in Chicago who are struggling with mixed aspirations, not enough money, conflicts over religion, and institutional racism.


MLK Speakers Series

"Martin Luther King, Jr.: Has His Dream Been Deferred or Fulfilled?"

When:   Thursday, January 20
Time:    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Where: Main Library Media Showing Room (E174)

Speaker: Dr. A.B. Assensoh, Professor & Director of Graduate Studies and Admissions, African American & African Diaspora Studies Department, IU Bloomington.


Both events are free and open to the public.  For more information, contact DeLoice Holliday at dehollid@indiana.edu