The Colored Waiting Room: The American Civil Rights Movement Then and Now

March 7, 2018


The Colored Waiting Room: The American Civil Rights Movement Then and Now

Author and panelist event on Friday, April 6th, 4-6p.m. at MICA ‘s Brown Center

Imagine Montgomery, Alabama at the height of the civil rights movement – a place where one man’s barbershop became a gathering place for Martin Luther King, Jr. and his fellow leaders to actively discuss change and how they would organize to make their voices heard.  In honor of the 50thanniversary of the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., author Kevin Shird and eighty-four year old, Nelson Malden, will discuss The American Civil Rights Movement, Diversity, Equity

and
Inclusion: Turning Dialogue and Intention into Action
Anthony McCarthy of the Baltimore

NAACP,
will moderate a panel of Baltimore leaders, including: 

    Further event details can be found on ABAG’s website at the following link.  Registration for this event is

    required,
    and can be completed at — http://www.abagrantmakers.org/event/ColoredWaitingRoom.