Martin Luther King’s summers spent in Simsbury, CT, working on a tobacco farm in the 1940s opened a teenage Martin Luther King Jr's eyes to a world beyond the Jim Crow South. Join us to learn about how a forgotten folder documenting this time sparked the fight to save the site of a little-known chapter in civil rights history.
Featuring
Catherine Labadia, Staff Archaeologist and Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer
Featured in The New York Times, Hartford Courant, NBC News and Preservation Connecticut
Friday, February 18th
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
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