Lines That Shaped Freedom: Trouble on Route 40
May 12 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Free
Beyond the Obvious Speaker Series Continues.
Part Two of our series, Lines That Shaped Freedom, brings us forward to Route 40, where local roads met global history. During the Cold War, newly independent African diplomats encountered segregation while traveling through northeastern Maryland and Delaware—sparking an international incident that drew the Kennedy administration into action and placed the region in the worldwide spotlight of the Civil Rights era.
