Faculty/Staff Daily Digest

The UConn Library is celebrating Black History Month with a series of exhibits and events focusing on the theme of Black Resistance. In a two-part event, we will be hosting a film screening of Rosewood on Tuesday, February 21st. Rosewood, Florida was the site of a horrific massacre 100 years ago, during the first week of January in 1923. This rural town of about 200 people was one of several Black communities in the US that suffered racial violence and destruction in the post World War I era. A century later, all that remains of the town of Rosewood is a solitary house and the memories passed on by survivors. The film is a blockbuster retelling of the true-life destruction, capturing Jim Crow-era violence and the Black radical tradition of resistance.The screening will take place simultaneously in person in the Class of ‘47 Room in Homer Babbidge and online.  

Following this event, we are pleased to be joined by Lizzie Robinson Jenkins, a Rosewood descendant and Founder & President of the Real Rosewood Foundation, Inc. A published author, historian, and retired educator, Jenkins has fought for over 30 years to research and historicize the town of Rosewood. Ms. Jenkins will lead a virtual-only discussion about the work they are doing researching, documenting, and preserving the tragic history that has been buried for nearly 80 years. 

Event Details  

Both events are free and open to the public. Registration is required.

While visiting our campus locations, view the exhibition ‘Disorder in the Night: Narratives of Black Resistance, 1723-2023.’ The exhibit explores the Black resistance through three broad themes: everyday subversions – small acts of resistance taken in everyday life or daily activities; cultural revolution – the use of creative expression through media or the arts to create social, political, or cultural change; and collective action – the power of people and the use of cooperative organizing or mass mobilization throughout history.