Route 40 & Civil Rights Lines that Shaped Freedom: Trouble on Route 40

Travel two centuries forward from the creation of the Mason-Dixon Line 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. Speaker Mike Dixon, a historian and writer whose research and teaching focuses on social history and community studies, encourages public interest and participation in the preservation of the past while creating understandings between earlier eras and the present, with rich, deep, and varied stories. Free admission. Free parking. Public invited.