Feature Stream: Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement 1954 - 1985

Eyes on the Prize shows individual acts of courage that inspire black Southerners to fight for their rights: Mose Wright testifies against the white men who murdered young Emmett Till, and Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Feature Stream: I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.

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Feature Stream: Selma

In Celebration of Black History Month, our feature stream of the week is Selma.

In the film Selma, civil-rights activists march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery to secure voting rights for black Americans in this docudrama, which focuses on the actions of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Reading Across Campus: Fences

Each year the Literature Committee promotes a campus-wide reading program featuring a significant book reflecting cultural ideas relevant to all students and faculty, and an associated film that encapsulates the reading event. This year the associated movie is award winning film, Fences.   

This adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells the story of Troy Maxson who makes his living as a sanitation worker in 1950s Pittsburgh.  Maxson dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player but was deemed too old when the major leagues began accepting African American athletes. Bitter about his lot in life, Maxson frequently takes out his frustrations on his loved ones and creates further tension when he squashes his son’s chance to meet a college football recruiter. 

A screening of Fences is on February 21st at 6:30pm in Jarvis Hall Science Wing, room 110.

February 18th, Talk to Strangers Series goes to Menomonie Public Library

The Menomonie Public Library and UW-Stout Library have joined forces to hold another installment of the Talk to Strangers Series. If you attended Talk to Strangers, Stout Starters or Fast Friends, on campus, you will recognize the format. Here is another chance to have fun and meet folks in the community.

Latest issue of Check This Out now available!

The February 2018 issue of Check This Out! is now available throughout the library and here on the blog! Featured in this issue: library hours, Reading Across Campus, Black History Month, and the community event Menomonie Reads Presents: Michael Perry.

Menomonie Reads Presents: Michael Perry

Join the Menomonie Public Library and the UW-Stout University Library for an evening of homegrown wit and wisdom with best-selling author Michael Perry on February 15 at 7:00 pm in the UW-Stout Memorial Student Union Ballroom Room 239. Wisconsin author Michael Perry visits Menomonie to talk about his new collection of essays and other ruminations in, Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy.