Stratford Library Moves Lawn Exhibit Inside

Press release from Stratford Library:

Feb. 18, 2021

The Stratford Library, 2203 Main Street in Stratford has extended the viewing period and moved its lawn sign exhibit, which debuted last November, inside the building. Entitled "The Power of Diverse Voices: In Their Words", the exhibit is a project of the Library Board’s newly formed Anti-Racism committee and features select quotations from people of color on over 80 signs now gracing various spaces in the Library. The words of Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Harriet Tubman, Caesar Chavez Frederick Douglass, Beyonce, Michael Jordan, James Baldwin, Kamala Harris, Stevie Wonder and Alice Walker.

The project was the first of several programs dealing with racism and implicit bias planned by the Library in conjunction with CARE (Citizens Addressing Racial Equity), Sterling House Community Center, the Town of Stratford and the Arts Alliance of Stratford. A lobby display also provides brief biographies about all those quoted. Those seeking further information can also visit the Library’s website at: http://stratfordlibrary.org/anti-racism-reading-list-resources/.

For further information call: 203.385.4162.

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