The Martin Luther King Jr. Presentation Series
Film: The Rosa Parks Story
Thursday, October 14-2p.m.
In 1955, Rosa Parks created the spark that ignited the modern Civil Rights Movement. The young Black woman, after a hard day of work, was told by a bus driver to relinquish her seat on the bus for a White woman. Her refusal throws Rosa and her family into the Ku Klux Klan's ring of hatred as well as into the limelight of the NAACP. The compelling true story demonstrates the power a single act of defiance can have over an ancient tradition of injustice.
Panel Discussion:
Public Accommodation, Housing and Unrest
Thursday, September 27-7p.m.
South Bend, like other American cities in the 1960s, faced many obstacles related to equality in public accommodation and housing. Hear panelists Lynn Coleman, Assistant to the Mayor; Jack Colwell, South Bend Tribune columnist; and Gladys Muhammad, Assoicate Director of South Bend Heritage Foundation, recall their memories of that decade in their discussion of the local Civil Rights Movement. Serving as moderator is Mike Collins. The event is offered in conjunction with the exhibit, Media Coverage of Civil Rights, presented in partnership by the Center for History, Civil Rights Heritage Center and South Bend Tribune.
$8/adults
$6.50/seniors 60+
$5/youth 6-17 or college
Free/members
Group discounts