Date:
Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 7:00am to 11:00am
Location:
Hargraves Center & Chapel Hill Town Hall
Saturday, Feb 28:
February 28 Freedom Rider State Highway
Marker Programs And Unveiling Ceremony
12—1:30
Opening Program at Hargraves Recreation Center
NAACP President, Eugene Farrar—Welcome
1947 Freedom Rider, George Hauser—Welcome
Rev. Charles Jones Granddaughter, Karen Abbotts--Welcome
UNC-NOW—Performance Re-enactment of 1947 Freedom Ride in Chapel Hill
Freedom Riders Essay Contest Awards Presentation
1:30—2
March to Dedication Site at Rosemary and Columbia
Signs and Banners, Chants, Song, Photo Boards
2—2:30
Dedication and Unveiling Ceremony
NAACP President, Eugene Farrar—Dedication program
Fred Battle—Unveiling
2:30—4
Town Hall Reception and Program
Refreshments
Cj Suitt—Spoken Word
Tim Tyson—Background and Perspective on 1947 Journey of Reconciliation
Filmmakers Robin Washington and Julia Cheng—DVD, “You Don’t Have to Ride
JIM CROW!”
Co-sponsored
Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP
Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist
Partner Organizations
Town of Chapel Hill
UNC-NOW
Additional events on Thursday, Feb. 26:
5:30 at Sonja Hanes Stone Center.
7:00 at Horace Williams House, organized by the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP.
More info and context on the week's events at http://www.orangepolitics.org/2009/02/chapel-hill-gets-a-historic-marker-for-the-first-freedom-ride
