Seminar on Wheels
Sat, Feb 16
|First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca
A History of Slavery and Racial Injustice
Time & Location
Feb 16, 2019, 9:00 AM – Feb 23, 2019, 5:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca, 315 N Cayuga St, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
About the event
Traveling by bus, the Seminar will visit historic sites on the way to Montgomery, Alabama where we will visit the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (commonly known as the “National Lynching Memorial”). Other planned stops include Harper’s Ferry (where John Brown and other abolitionists made their stand), Stagville plantation in Durham, NC, the premiere of “Goodnight, Tyler” (a live theater production about a black boy shot by an officer), the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.