Civil Rights Saturday

The Civil Rights Saturday program cosponsored by the Alexandria Black History Museum and Living Legends of Alexandria was so successful we plan to host another this summer. Stay tuned for details.

The free interactive program about Civil Rights locally and nationally featured an overview by acting museum director Audrey Davis of the current exhibition "Sit Down and Take a Stand:  Samuel Wilbert Tucker and the 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-in."  The 75th anniversary of the historic event occurs this year and was one of the earliest civil rights actions in the United States.

Former hate crimes prosecutor Howard Feinstein chronicled some of  his experiences in the deep South including a reading from his book Fire on the Bayou: True Tales from the Civil Rights Battlefront.

And as part of Family Legends of Alexandria, adults and children joined local storyteller and book artist Sushmita Mazumdar for a bookmaking activity. Family Legends of Alexandria is a program of Living Legends of Alexandria.

 

 

 

Photos by Nina Tisara/Living Legends of Alexandria