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The Greenburgh Public Library is pleased to announce our participation in the Created Equal: America's Civil Rights Struggle; a special initiative to bring about community conversations by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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The Greenburgh Public Library will have a film screening of the documentary: Freedom Riders on Saturday, February 8th from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Join the young college students of CORE as they made their historic inter-racial ride across the deep south of 1961. Participate in our first community conversation, take a tour of history, win a freedom riders bus miniature. Funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Gilder Lehrman Foundation. Refreshments will be served.

A special project to mark the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation was developed as part of the Endowment's Bridging Cultures project. Along with the support of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 473 Libraries, Museums, Academic Institutions and Cultural Centers will be sharing four documentary films spanning the shared American history of civil rights.

Come get on the bus and join our journey through American history!. This is part 1 of a 4 part series of documentary films and guest speakers to highlight the history of the Abolitionist movement, slavery after Emancipation, the famous Loving couple and their rights as an inter-racial married family and the courageous Freedom Rider.

Call (914) 721-8233 for more information.
Event Location: Greenburgh Public Library, 300 Tarrytown Road, Elmsford, NY 10523

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