A virtual Civil Rights Tour

A VIRTUAL CIVIL RIGHTS TOUR OF THE UPPER WEST SIDE ON TUESDAY 11 APRIL 2023 AT 10:30 AM

(All AFICS/NY Members are invited to attend via Zoom. Please register your interest by sending an email

to susandesouza@hotmail.com so that Ms. Hallingby can send you the link to the virtual tour.)

The Upper West Side of Manhattan is home to about 20 sites connected with important people and moments

in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement (1954-68). Our 50-minute virtual tour will begin with an examination of 

NYC's most prominent memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr (see above images). We will decode this most 

unusual and complicated sculpture, which most people walk past without actually taking it in. Further stops will relate to, among others, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Ellie Wiesel. An Upper West Sider 

whom many people are surprised to learn was a civil rights activist is the writer and humorist Dorothy Parker. 

There will be plenty of time afterwards for comments and questions.

Arranged by the AFICS/NY Social Committee