Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle
Series Launch & Lunch! Reservations are required as a pizza lunch will be served during intermission. Please call the Adult Reference Desk at 734-426-4477 to register.
Featured Documentary: The Abolitionists (180 min.)
The Abolitionists brings to life the struggles of the men and women who led the battle to end slavery: Impassioned New England newspaper editor William Lloyd Garrison; former slave, author, and activist Frederick Douglass; Angelina Grimké, daughter of a rich South Carolina slaveholder; Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the enormously influential Uncle Tom's Cabin and John Brown, ultimately executed for his armed seizure of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. These five individuals turned a fringe movement into a force that literally changed the nation.
Cover Image: ©WGBH Educational Foundation/Antony Platt