Black History Month Community Day at the Freedom Center
February 15 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Free
Celebrate Black History Month with us at our February Fifth Third Community Day, filled with talks and activities that honor the courage, resilience and legacy of African Americans in U.S. history.
Historians, researchers, and living-history experts will share stories from the Revolutionary era, the Civil War and today’s work to preserve family and community histories.
In the morning, you can hear from Dr. Karen Sutton (The Nickens Nine: African American Patriots of the Revolution), Dr. Mark Attucks (First to Defy—First to Die), Muriel Roberts (Living History: Reenacting African American Heritage) and Nikki Williams Sebastian (Researching and Preserving African American Family History).
In the afternoon, 2025 Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Dr. Edda Fields-Black will talk about her book Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War, with a book signing to follow.
This Community Day is a chance to connect with Black history through learning, storytelling, and conversation. It links the struggles for freedom in the past with today’s efforts to preserve and honor African American heritage.
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