Making Visible the Invisible – Restoring Black Lives and History
Saturday, September 17, 2-4PM
The Meeting House at The Old Manse – Artist Sam Durant’s Pavilion for Racial Justice Dialogue
Exhibit open August 13th – October 16th
The Meeting House at The Old Manse – Artist Sam Durant’s Pavilion for Racial Justice Dialogue
Exhibit open August 13th – October 16th
Ellen Tested our Nation’s First Civil Rights Bill
Baltimore, MD Train Station
Robbins House Humanities Director Elon Cook visited Baltimore’s President Street train station in costume, where Ellen Garrison defended her right to sit in the ladies’ waiting room on May 7, 1866. The Civil Rights Bill of 1866, enacted on April 9th, was the first US federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected – it was mainly intended to protect the civil rights of African Americans in the wake of the Civil War.
