It’s our second annual Black History Month Celebration—and do we have a celebration planned! We have so much planned, in fact, that we couldn’t fit it all into the month of February. So we decided to start our celebration early and extend the fun. Check out all these activities that honor Black history!
Recommended for adults: February 10, 1:30 p.m.--Ninth Street Movie Showing: Ninth Street is an independent award winning film (1999) written by Junction City native Kevin Wilmott, a film director and screenwriter, as well as a professor of film at the University of Kansas. He is known for work focusing on black issues including Ninth Street, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, Bunker Hill and mostly recently BlacKkKlansman. Starring Don Washington, Kevin Willmott, Isaac Hayes, Queen Bey, and Martin Sheen, Ninth Street is a film of historical transition depicting life in Junction City, Kansas circa 1969 in a small business district that caters to nearby Fort Riley with its joints and clubs. It is a community in danger of losing its identity as a locally-owned, tradition-rich neighborhood. Ninth Street is a film available only in the library’s archives. Come enjoy a special showing in the comfort of the library’s Community Room. (Movie is rated R.)
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February 21, 6:30 p.m.—Kansas Slavery and the Underground Railroad Plus! Richard Pitts, the director of the Wonder Workshop Children’s Museum and host of the Dawn of Day PBS documentary, will share information as it relates to the history of Africans, African-American slavery, and the Bleeding Kansas Underground Railroad. He will share slides that reveal where these Underground Railroad sites are located, who these early Kansans were, and why they decided to enter the union of the United States as a free state. This presentation will help you tune into our common history as well as understand some of the legacies that present themselves in our lives today.
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