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Created Equal: "The Abolitionist" Film and Discussion at the Stratford Library

To mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s March on Washington, the Stratford Library is taking part in the annual, nationwide celebration of “Black History Month” with a film, book and speaker series highlighting the Civil Rights movement in America.
  
The series, entitled Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle, continues Thursday, February 27, at noon with a showing of the film The Abolitionist, about how a small group of moral reformers in the 1830's launched one of the most ambitious social movements imaginable.
Guest speaker: Stratford Councilwoman Stephanie Philips.

For further information call: 203.385.4162 or visit: www.stratfordlibrary.org.

Sponsors for Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle include: Citizens Addressing Racial Equity (C.A.R.E.), the Stratford South End Community Center and the Square One Theatre Company. 

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