Black History Month Events at UC Clermont College

UC Clermont College celebrates Black History with activities open to the community.

Clermont County Historian Rick Crawford will present Clermont County's Role in the Underground Railroad on February 1 from 1 – 2 p.m. in Education Services Building 205.

Rick Crawford is the Clermont County historian and author of 10 books. He gives tours and talks around the county. He is the first full-time paid county historian in state in of Ohio and founder of the Clermont County of bicentennial commission.

The College will also hold “Black History Monday Film Series” from 11 a.m. -1 p.m. each Monday in February in the Snyder Building Room 143.

Feb. 6: The Rosa Parks Story
Feb. 13: Remember the Titans
Feb. 20: American History X
Feb. 27: Crash

The Rosa Parks Story Angela Basset stars in the story of the civil rights heroine whose refusal to obey racial bus segregation was just one of her acts in her fight for justice.

Remember the Titans Suburban Virginia schools have been segregated for generations, in sight of the Washington Monument over the river in the nation's capital. One Black and one White high school are closed and the students sent to T.C. Williams High School under federal mandate to integrate. The year is seen through the eyes of the football team where the man hired to coach the Black school is made head coach over the highly successful white coach. Based on the actual events of 1971, the team becomes the unifying symbol for the community as the boys and the adults learn to depend on and trust each other.

American History X Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) returns from prison to find his younger brother, Danny (Edward Furlong), caught in the same web of racism and hatred that landed him in prison. After Derek's father is killed in the line of duty by a minority, Derek's view of mankind is altered, but while in prison, he discovers that there is good and bad in every race. The task before him now is to convince Danny of his newfound enlightenment.

Crash Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a black police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the distracted district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful black Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more.

All events are free and open to the public. Directions: http://www.ucclermont.edu/Directions.asp

For more information contact Mae Hanna, Director of College Relations UC Clermont College (513) 732-5332