Documents Tagged ‘Juliette Whittaker’
Remembering Juliette
Archive Entry Date: 2010
Juliette Whittaker was “my angel,” wrote Richard's childhood friend Matt Clark
A Quiet Storm
Archive Entry Date: 05/08/2007
At her funeral service in the Carver Community Center, Whittaker's gift for nurturing talent was fondly recalled
Juliette Whittaker
Archive Entry Date: 05/04/2007
After 80 years of living creatively, Whittaker peacefully passed away in 2007
Matt Clark Recalls Richard’s Early Love for Performance
Archive Entry Date: 12/18/2005
A portrait of the young Richard, courtesy of his childhood friend Matt Clark
Whittaker’s Expressive Arts
Archive Entry Date: 11/27/2002
“The artist part of me has always chosen a storytelling style,” explained Whittaker
If You Shoot For The Moon…
Archive Entry Date: 03/08/1981
An in-depth profile of the remarkable woman who first mentored Richard Pryor as an artist
Peoria Chief of Police Commends Whittaker
Archive Entry Date: 05/17/1973
Juliette Whittaker was praised for her bravery by the Chief of Police as a hostage negotiator in the line of fire
Whittaker: Young Man of Great Potential
Archive Entry Date: 05/02/1973
Juliette Whittaker remembered gunman (and Black Panther) Melvin Burch as “a very gentle man”
Gunman Slain As Pupil Held Hostage In School
Archive Entry Date: 05/02/1973
In a high-stakes hostage standoff, the gunmen refused negotiations with anyone but Juliette Whittaker
Malcolm X Asks: “Who Will Help Mend America?”
Archive Entry Date: 1969
Juliette Whittaker's Civil Rights fresco
Richard Pryor Returns To Peoria Stage
Archive Entry Date: 03/09/1969
A benefit for the local Afro-American Black Peoples Federation brought Richard Pryor back to the Carver Center stage
I, Too, Sing America
Archive Entry Date: 02/1966
A glimpse of a musical number from Whittaker's Civil Rights inspired pageant, “I, Too, Sing America”
F.S. Whittaker, Lawyer, Father Of Peorian, Dies
Archive Entry Date: 04/07/1965
The death of Juliette's father, a poet, artist, playwright, and lawyer, was honored by Peoria from afar.
National TV Debut For Peoria Entertainer
Archive Entry Date: 08/31/1964
Juliette Whittaker encouraged Pryor to “move into every and any stage he could find.”
Carver Variety Show Satire Provides ‘Touch’
Archive Entry Date: 12/06/1963
From the imagination of Juliette Whittaker, a Dixiecrat senator's tour of Hell
The Enchanted Cage
Archive Entry Date: 11/27/1962
Carver Center teens, including later Black Panther Mark Clark, rehearsed a scene from “The Enchanted Cage”
The Friendship Tea
Archive Entry Date: 06/13/1962
Juliette Whittaker was among the ladylike faces of this Peorian Civil Rights initiative
Billy Smiles
Archive Entry Date: 1961
A story of Juliette Whittaker's mentorship — and one of her paintings — grounded this Carver Center fundraising appeal
Swinging Into Action
Archive Entry Date: 11/08/1957
Presenting the Silicons - a doowop group featured in a Carver Center talent show that Pryor may have emceed
270 Sign Up For Carter Program
Archive Entry Date: 09/20/1957
The 1957 Center curriculum ranged from baton-twirling and canasta to scenery building and choir
She Lends Many Talents to Corn Stock
Archive Entry Date: 06/11/1957
A closer look at the Carver Center's resident playwright, director, stage manager, and set designer
Types of Work Vary — Reach to Professions
Archive Entry Date: 4/11/1957
Juliette Whittaker was among the professionals spotlighted in “What Negroes do for a living in Peoria”
Children’s Theater of Carver Center
Archive Entry Date: 3/15/55
A review of “Rumpelstiltskin,” Richard's first stage appearance.
The Carver Center’s 10th Anniversary
Archive Entry Date: 1954
Celebrating ten successful years, the Carver Center released a report on its progress.
‘Hopalong Hamlet’ Will Ride At Carver
Archive Entry Date: 1950s
Shakespeare's classic re-imagined by Whittaker in an original Carver Center Youth Theater production