Exhibition, Nelson Mandela 1918 - 2013: from Prisoner to President, first shown at the Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg in 2008, in celebration of Mandela's 90th birthday

 

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The Museum is now accepting volunteer applications. Click here to learn more about volunteer opportunities and apply.       FREE VIRTUAL LECTURE Virtual Lecture & Q&A with Apartheid Museum Director Christopher Till Thursday, October 8 | Noon - 1:00 p.m. (live) Thursday, October 8 | 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. (pre-recorded) Apartheid Museum Director Christopher Till will discuss the exhibition, Nelson Mandela 1918 - 2013: from Prisoner to President, first shown at the Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg in 2008, in celebration of Mandela's 90th birthday.The exhibition brings Mandela into focus by examining his ethos, humanity and legacy in a contemporary moment. The exhibition depicts the rise and fall of Apartheid, echoing the struggles of others across the globe and underlining the critical need to continually evaluate ourselves against present-day injustices.   RSVP for Noon→ RSVP for 6:30 p.m.→       FREE VIRTUAL LECTURE The Anti-Apartheid Movement in Houston Thursday, October 15 | 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Dr. Gregory H. Maddox will review the anti-apartheid movement in the 1980s in Houston culminating with Mandela’s visit in 1990. He will highlight the role of community organizations such as SHAPE, the role of Mickey Leland, the divestment campaign, the controversy over the Fred Hartman Bridge, and comment on the de Menil-sponsored visit to Houston. He will explain that this movement was both about supporting change in South Africa and mobilizing an anti-racism movement domestically.  Dr. Gregory Maddox is Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of History at TSU.   RSVP→       FREE VIRTUAL PANEL DISCUSSION Nelson Mandela, the Civil Rights and Anti-Apartheid Movements, and Human Rights Thursday, October 22 | 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Moderator: John Guess Jr., Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, Houston Museum of African American Culture Participants: County Commissioner Rodney Ellis, Eileen and Kase Lawal and Dr. Cassius Lubisi. Before serving as a County Commissioner, Rodney Ellis was elected to Houston City Council and served three terms before being elected to the Texas Senate in 1990 where he served for 26 years; Eileen & Dr. Kase Lawal are Houston entrepreneurs and philanthropists; Dr. Cassius Lubisi is the former Presidency Director-General for the Republic of South Africa.   RSVP→       FREE VIRTUAL LECTURE Reading the Diary of Anne Frank on Robben Island with Dr. Roni Mikel Arieli Thursday, November 5 | Noon - 1:00 p.m. (live) Thursday, November 5 | 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. (pre-recorded) The Indian South African anti-apartheid activist and youth leader, Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada, was sentenced to life in prison during the Rivonia trial (July 1963). Over the period of his 26-year imprisonment on Robben Island and in the Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, Kathrada kept seven secret notebooks in which he recorded quotations that he admired from books and newspapers smuggled into prison. Notebook number three contained thirteen entries that Kathrada selected from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (1952), which was smuggled onto Robben Island, and circulated among the prisoners there during the 1960s. This lecture traces the ways in which the Diary found its way into the “leadership” section on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki, Ahmed Kathrada, and other prominent opponents of apartheid were imprisoned. Using Kathrada’s insights about the Holocaust through a careful reading of the thirteen chosen extracts from the Diary, in conjunction with Mandela and Mbeki’s post-apartheid testimonies of their reading of the Diary, this lecture presents the significance of Anne Frank in the struggle against apartheid, as well as during the transition from apartheid to democracy. Dr. Roni Mikel Arieli is a cultural historian, interested in the intersections between Holocaust memory, contemporary Jewish history, and human rights. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.   RSVP for Noon→ RSVP for 6:30 p.m.→     Thanks to our generous donors, Holocaust Museum Houston is able to bring traveling exhibitions like Mandela: Struggle for Freedom and accompanying public programming at no additional cost to our patrons. Please consider making a gift today to ensure that we can continue offering these educational experiences.

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