Come join the Friends of Allensworth and the staff of
Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park as we celebrate Black History Month on
Saturday, February 8, 2014. Come out and enjoy docent led tours of the town’s
historic homes and businesses, purchase food and crafts from the vendors, watch
“Allensworth: A Piece of the World” a video that retells the story of Colonel
Allen Allensworth and the town he founded.
Sites are still available at the campground, to reserve your campsite go to the Reserve America website or call 1-800-444-7275.
When: Saturday, February 8, 2014
Time: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Where: Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park
This
year’s national Black History Month theme “Civil Rights In America” is a
tribute to the fiftieth anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
After years of sit-ins, boycotts, marches,
and freedom rides into the heart of the deep South.
After the murder of civil rights workers Medger Evers and
William L. Moore, and the death of Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole
Robertson and Denise McNair, the four young girls killed in the bombing of the
16th Street Baptist Church.
After the U.S. Senate debated for 83 days, over 730 hours,
and almost 3,000 pages in the Congressional Record, on July 2, 1964 President
Johnson spoke the following word during a nationwide television broadcast from
the White House:
We believe that all men are created
equal -- yet many are denied equal
treatment…. The reasons are deeply embedded in history and tradition and
the nature of man. We can understand without rancor or hatred how all this
happens. But it cannot continue. Our Constitution, the foundation of our
Republic, forbids it. The principles of our freedom forbid it. Morality forbids
it. And the law I sign tonight forbids it....
The 1964 Civil Rights Act barred unequal application of
voter registration requirements, outlawed discrimination in hotels, motels,
restaurants, theaters, encouraged
the desegregation of public schools, and outlawed discrimination in employment
in any business exceeding twenty five people.
Come join us as we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights
Act
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