The Past is Never Dead

Celebrate Black History Month with Dr. Danielle McGuire, a storyteller extraordinaire, in the Black Box and learn from the experiences that shaped her life into an acclaimed historian. Recognized by Oprah Winfrey, her book, "At the Dark End of the Street,” told the surprising history of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which began when Rosa Parks investigated the rape of Recy Taylor in 1944. Join us for this incredible opportunity to dive into an American story everyone thinks they know. Plus, learn how a high school history teacher’s assignment helped a white girl from Wisconsin become a go-to source for the Civil Rights Movement.

American history has never been more popular, nor more contested. From bestselling books and blockbuster movies to podcasts and travel, the appetite for historical content is soaring. At the same time, we are also witnessing a troubling trend of historical censorship, as 44 U.S. states, including Utah, attempt to restrict what we can teach and learn about American history.

Dr. Danielle McGuire

Danielle McGuire, PhD, is an award-winning historian, public speaker and author of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance-a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (Knopf), which won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award. She is the recipient of the Lerner Scott Prize for best dissertation in women’s history. Her Journal of American History article, “It was Like We Were All Raped: Sexualized Violence, Community Mobilization and the African American Freedom Struggle,” won the A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize for best essay in southern women’s history and was reprinted in the Best Essays in American History. She is the editor with John Dittmer of Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement; and wrote the foreword for John Hersey’s The Algiers Motel Incident.

McGuire is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and has appeared on PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Headline News, National Public Radio, BookTV, and dozens of local television and radio stations throughout the United States. Her popular essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Detroit Free Press, Bridge Magazine, Washington Post, Huffington Post, and CNN.com. She serves as a consultant on documentary films such as The Rape of Recy Taylor and You Belong to Me: The Ruby McCollum Story. She helps curate educational historical tours and civil rights-related curricula for secondary schools and serves on the advisory board of History Studio. She is currently at work on a book about police violence in Detroit in 1967, to be published by Knopf.

Check out the entire lineup of our exciting 2023-24 Winter Series

The 2023-24 Winter Season at the Eccles Center has begun featuring Music, Dance, Comedy, and Speakers. The next event will feature 2019 Latin GRAMMY® winner or Best New Artist - NELLA.

About The Theater

The Eccles Center is the largest theater in Park City, Utah with 1,240 seats. It is home to Park City Institute's Winter Season from October through April each year, presenting a broad range of world-class performing arts from international dance companies to Broadway icons to beloved author/humorists to virtuosos in a host of musical styles from Chamber Music to rock'n'roll.

The 2023-24 Main Stage Series is made possible with the generous support from the following individuals and organizations:

The 2023-24 Main Stage Series was made possible with the generous support from the following individuals and organizations:

John & Jean Yablonski
Beano Solomon
Kim Li
The Ioannides Family Foundation
DPM Family
Jeanie and Patrick O’Shaughnessy
Goldberg Foundation
Joe & Cathy Cleary
Anonymous

St. Regis Deer Valley
Pendry Park City
Mountain Express Magazine
Waldorf Astoria Park City
Wicked Fast Internet
Marley Construction
Marcella Club
Flanigan’s Irish Pub
Warehouse Park City

Taylor Adams, Gretchen Anderson, Paul Aronzon & Michelle Hackley, Jo Ann & Jim Askins, The Blank Family Foundation, Marsha Bloom & Bobby Stevenson, Jill & Peter Borst, Roy Buchta, Jana Cole, Holly Etlin, Don & Teresa Epperson, Tom & Lynn Fey, Beth & John Goodwin, Josh Goodwin, Kimberly Gray, Sarah Harding, Robin Hauser, Terry & Ann Marie Horner, Macie House, Eileen & Pete Kitner, Mairi Leining, Jan Manning, Arthur Nicholas, Pat & Charlotte O'Connell, Allen & Rocio Poe, Patti Polster, Craig Reece, The Rosh Foundation, Harris & Debra Rose, Laurie & Owen Schwartz, Julie & Brad Senet, Robert Shallenberg, Claire Schilling & Tim Daniel, Bob Sertner & Steve Batiste, Joel & Lisa Shine, Kirk Sisson, Diane Sontheimer, Theresa & Jay Wrobel, Betsy Wallace & Ed Godycki, Mike Whitaker & Mariana Baserga

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