December 1, 2008

Join us for a public celebration: 10:30am, World Famous Lexington Market Arcade

Watch...
actress Gwen Briley Strand will perform a selection from her one-woman show about Rosa Parks.

Tour...
a 1950s bus, similar to the one that Rosa Parks rode in Montgomery, Alabama, will be parked outside of the World Famous Lexington Market.

View...
an exhibition about Rosa Parks’ life and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, drawn from the archives of the AFRO American Newspaper, and hear a 1956 radio interview with Rosa Parks.

Additional exhibition tour: 1:30-3:30pm in parking lot of Orleans Street Branch of the Pratt Library, 1303 Orleans Street

Ride...
MTA buses throughout downtown Baltimore; each bus will display a timeline of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and reserve the front seat of each bus for Rosa Parks.

November 2008

WEAA Radio will profile Rosa Parks’ life and legacy throughout the week

Listen...
each week to WEAA radio, which will profile a Marylander who exhibited courage in the face of adversity to promote equality for all, as Rosa Parks did. Carl Murphy, Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Gloria Richardson, and Pip Moyer and Zastrow Simms will be remembered for their place in the Civil Rights Movement.

December 2, 2008 through February 26, 2009

View...
the exhibition, Sitting Down to Take a Stand—Remembering Rosa Parks, which will be displayed at the Charles Center Metro Station.

January, 2009

Go to the Movies!

Three Civil Rights-themed films will be screened at the auditorium in the Pratt Central Library, 400 Cathedral Street. Each film will be followed by a Community Conversation about race relations, based on the ideas from each film.

• January 10, 2009, 2pm, Boycott,
Examines what happened when the one-day boycott of the Montgomery buses lasts more than a year.

• January 24, 2009, 2pm, Four Little Girls
Spike Lee's film about the 1963 bombing of The 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama; and

• January 31, 2009, 2pm, Chisholm 72, Unbossed and Unbought
The documentary on Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm’s campaign to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in 1972.

March 2009

Sitting Down to Take a Stand: Remembering Rosa Parks, will be exhibited at the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center, 847 N. Howard Street, during March 2009. The opening reception will be on March 5, 2009 at 6pm. The Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center is open Wednesday through Friday from noon to 6pm, Saturday from 11am to 3pm, and Sunday by appointment. Contact Executive Director Troy Burton at 410-225-3130 for more information.