![[Protest of Chicago Public Schools: Title One/Angeline Caruso]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-09-14-at-11.01.40-AM-228x160.jpg)
A protest in downtown Chicago against the drastic cuts to the Chicago Public Schools’ budgets. Protesters demand funds for poor students and Latinx students, and demand an audience with Chicago Public Schools Superintendent Angeline Caruso.
![[’63 Boycott: Timuel Black interview]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/926117782_295x166-228x160.jpg)
Camera original footage shot for the documentary ’63 Boycott from Kartemquin Films. ’63 Boycott is a thirty-minute documentary and web project highlighting the stories of participants in the 1963 Chicago Public School (CPS) Boycott (also known as Freedom Day). One of the largest Civil Rights demonstrations in the city’s history, on October 22, 1963, a coalition of civil rights groups, local activists, and 250,000 students staged a mass boycott and demonstration against the Chicago Board of Education to protest racial segregation and inadequate resources for Black students. This interview features Timuel Black, a long-time Civil Rights activist, educator, and historian of African-American history. In the 1960s Black served as an adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr. and led the Chicago contingent to the 1963 March on Washington.
![[’63 Boycott: Ralph Davis Interview]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/921559202_295x166-228x160.jpg)
Camera original footage shot for the documentary ’63 Boycott from Kartemquin Films. ’63 Boycott is a thirty-minute documentary and web project highlighting the stories of participants in the 1963 Chicago Public School (CPS) Boycott (also known as Freedom Day). One of the largest Civil Rights demonstrations in the city’s history, on October 22, 1963, a coalition of civil rights groups, local activists, and 250,000 students staged a mass boycott and demonstration against the Chicago Board of Education to protest racial segregation and inadequate resources for Black students. This interview features Ralph Davis, a student who was interviewed in the original film shot by Gordon Quinn during the 1963 boycott.
![[’63 Boycott: Natasha Dunne, Jill Willis, and Annette Stricland Interview]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/899306920_295x166-228x160.jpg)
Camera original footage shot for the documentary ’63 Boycott from Kartemquin Films. ’63 Boycott is a thirty-minute documentary and web project highlighting the stories of participants in the 1963 Chicago Public School (CPS) Boycott (also known as Freedom Day). One of the largest Civil Rights demonstrations in the city’s history, on October 22, 1963, a coalition of civil rights groups, local activists, and 250,000 students staged a mass boycott and demonstration against the Chicago Board of Education to protest racial segregation and inadequate resources for Black students. This interview features Annette Stricland, her daughter Jill Willis and granddaughter Natasha Dunne.
![[63′ Boycott: 2013 City Wide Boycott]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/897424459_295x166-228x160.jpg)
Camera original footage shot for the documentary ’63 Boycott from Kartemquin Films. ’63 Boycott is a thirty-minute documentary and web project highlighting the stories of participants in the 1963 Chicago Public School (CPS) Boycott (also known as Freedom Day). One of the largest Civil Rights demonstrations in the city’s history, on October 22, 1963, a coalition of civil rights groups, local activists, and 250,000 students staged a mass boycott and demonstration against the Chicago Board of Education to protest racial segregation and inadequate resources for Black students. On August 28, 2013, nearly 50 years after the 1963 Freedom Day, activists from several Chicago community groups called for a one-day boycott of Chicago Public Schools. Their action came in response to the Chicago Board of Education’s decision to close 49 elementary schools and a high school program. Activists held a demonstration in front of the Chicago School Board’s downtown office, followed by a march to City Hall. Citing discriminatory practices and unequal distribution of resources to neighborhoods of predominately working class African-American and Latino residents, demonstrators called for a publicly elected school board.
![[CPS School Closings Protest 2]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/896841666_295x166-228x160.jpg)
Camera original footage shot for the documentary ’63 Boycott from Kartemquin Films. ’63 Boycott is a thirty-minute documentary and web project highlighting the stories of participants in the 1963 Chicago Public School (CPS) Boycott (also known as Freedom Day). One of the largest Civil Rights demonstrations in the city’s history, on October 22, 1963, a coalition of civil rights groups, local activists, and 250,000 students staged a mass boycott and demonstration against the Chicago Board of Education to protest racial segregation and inadequate resources for Black students. On August 28, 2013, nearly 50 years after the 1963 Freedom Day, activists from several Chicago community groups called for a one-day boycott of Chicago Public Schools. Their action came in response to the Chicago Board of Education’s decision to close 49 elementary schools and a high school program. Activists held a demonstration in front of the Chicago School Board’s downtown office, followed by a march to City Hall. Citing discriminatory practices and unequal distribution of resources to neighborhoods of predominately working class African-American and Latino residents, demonstrators called for a publicly elected school board.
![[’63 Boycott: Lorne Cress Love Interview]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/895805140_295x166-228x160.jpg)
Camera original footage shot for the documentary ’63 Boycott from Kartemquin Films. ’63 Boycott is a thirty-minute documentary and web project highlighting the stories of participants in the 1963 Chicago Public School (CPS) Boycott (also known as Freedom Day). One of the largest Civil Rights demonstrations in the city’s history, on October 22, 1963, a coalition of civil rights groups, local activists, and 250,000 students staged a mass boycott and demonstration against the Chicago Board of Education to protest racial segregation and inadequate resources for Black students. This interview features Lorne Cress Love, organizer for the ’63 Boycott with the Chicago area Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and founder of the Woodlawn Community School, which teaches an African-centered curriculum. She is the sister of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing.
![[’63 Boycott: Sylvia Fischer Interview]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/888169465_295x166-228x160.jpg)
Camera original footage shot for the documentary ’63 Boycott from Kartemquin Films. ’63 Boycott is a thirty-minute documentary and web project highlighting the stories of participants in the 1963 Chicago Public School (CPS) Boycott (also known as Freedom Day). One of the largest Civil Rights demonstrations in the city’s history, on October 22, 1963, a coalition of civil rights groups, local activists, and 250,000 students staged a mass boycott and demonstration against the Chicago Board of Education to protest racial segregation and inadequate resources for Black students. This interview features Sylvia Fischer, a former elementary schoolteacher in the Hyde Park/Kenwood neighborhood and organizer with the Chicago-area Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.