For Immediate Release
Media Advisory
Event: 50th Anniversary Detroit 1967 Rebellion Tour
Date: Sat. July 22, 2017, 9:30am-4:00pm
Location: St. Matthew’s-St. Joseph’s Church 8850 Woodward
Breakfast Forum: 9:30am-Noon
Tour: Noon-4:00pm to see historic sites during July 1967
Sponsors: Detroit MLK Committee
Contact: 313-405-2185
E-mail: panafnewswire@yahoo.com
Detroit MLK Committee to Host Day of Rememberance Tour Commemorating the 1967 Rebellion
Schedule of Events:
Gathering and Breakfast: 9:30-10:00am
50th Anniversary Forum: 10:00am-Noon
Bus Tour: 12:30-4:00pm
Speakers Include: Dorothy Aldridge, Dan Aldridge, Aurora Harris, Abayomi Azikiwe
July 23 represents the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Rebellion in Detroit. The five days of events had a profound impact on the history of the African American Civil Rights and Black Power movements as well as shifting the character of politics in the United States as a hold.
Join the Detroit Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee for a day of commemorative discussion and a tour on Sat. July 22. The event is designed to provide an accurate perspective on the social conditions that spawned the Rebellion and its influence on historical developments in Detroit, the U.S. and internationally over the last five decades.
We will open with a community breakfast at St. Matthew’s-St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church beginning at 9:30am. At 10:00 we will hear presentations by Dorothy Aldridge, chair of the MLK Committee, who was a Civii Rights and Community activist in 1967; Dan Aldridge, another well-known activist in the city since the 1960s; Aurora Harris, a member of the MLK Committee, a poet and higher education instructor; and Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, and a co-founder of the Annual MLK Day Rally & March held in the city since 2004.
The bus tour will visit these and other historical sites:
–Location of the Algiers Motel and annex; the scene of the massacre of three African American youth on July 25, 1967
–Virginia Park District where the rebellion began on July 23, 1967
–Visit to the offices of the Virginia Park Citizen’s District Council
–Site of the home of Rosa Parks and other luminaries in Virginia Park
–Shrine of the Black Mandonna Church; location of the People’s Tribunal of Aug. 30, 1967
Please RSVP for the tour since seating will be limited. We are requesting a $20 donation for the breakfast and tour. If people are unable to give $20 any amount is acceptable. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
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