BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:Alumni are invited to a Black History of Ohio University Tour o n Friday\, Sept. 16\, during the Black Alumni Reunion. The tour starts at 3 :30 p.m. at the Alumni Gate at the corner of Court and Union streets on the College Green.\n\n \n\nThe Black experience in Athens began over 200 years ago. Ohio University history students will provide some windows into it fr om early settlers and Ohio University’s first Black students to ongoing eff orts at recognition and anti-racism\, with many stops in between.\n\n \n\nT his 30-to-45-minute tour will take participants around the college green\, providing an overview of important ways that Black residents\, students\, e ducators\, and organizations have confronted systemic challenges and contri buted much to the campus and broader area.\n\n \n\nThe tour was developed b y Ohio University history students and is co-sponsored by the Central Regio n Humanities Center and History Department.\n\n \n\nFor more information\, contact Brian Schoen\, associate professor\, history chair\, and the James Richard Hamilton/Baker and Hostetler Professor of the Charles J. Ping Insti tute for Teaching of the Humanities.\n\n \n\nMore Opportunities to Experien ce Local Black History\n\nVisit the Claiming an Education: Early Black Huma nists exhibit at Richland Avenue Park across from the OU Inn. The exhibit i s co-sponsored by the Charles J. Ping Institute for the Teaching of the Hum anities\, the Athens County Public Libraries\, and the Athens Department of Arts\, Parks and Recreation\, with funding from Ohio Humanities\, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.\n\n \n\nTake the se lf-guided mAppAthens\, Black History of Athens Tour\, developed by the Sout heast Ohio History Center and OHIO Museum Complex.\n\n \n\nWatch the keynot e address from the recent Black Life in the Ohio Valley Conference\, hosted by the Central Region Humanities Center. DTEND:20220916T201500Z DTSTAMP:20241123T184832Z DTSTART:20220916T193000Z LOCATION:Alumni Gate SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Black History of Ohio University Tour\, Sept. 16 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41003930259710 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/black_history_of_ohio_university_tour_s ept_16 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR