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Ending Racism Committee
The Unitarian Society of Germantown
6511 Lincoln Drive between Hortter and WayneDirections: www.usguu.org/pages/Directions
Sunday, August 8 4pm
New Black Box@ production of
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
A dramatic presentation based in part on excerpts from the biography by Juan WilliamsConceived, written, adapted and directed byRobert Anu & Mel Donaldson Thurgood Marshall was one of America's leading radicals. He helped lead a civil rights revolution in the 20th century that forever changed the landscape of American society. But he is the least well known of the three leading black figures of this last half- century. Martin Luther King Jr., with his teachings of love and non-violent resistance, and pre-Mecca Malcolm X, the fiery orator who advocated a righteous bloody overthrow of an unjust, racist system, are both more closely associated in the popular mind and myth with the civil rights struggle. But Thurgood Marshall, working through the courts to eradicate the legacy of slavery and destroying the racist segregation system of Jim Crow, had an even more profound and lasting effect on race relations than either Martin or Malcolm.In this “dramatic impression”, Thurgood Marshall will share with us some of the important as well as fond and humorous memories and lessons he experienced growing up, as a student, legal activist, soldier, and commander on the front lines and in the strategic councils in the battle for racial equality in the ongoing struggle for civil and human rights.Post-show discussion with Civil Rights veterans, cast, director and writers.
Assembly Room Stage
Cabaret table seating. Picnic style food & refreshments [BYOB] welcome. House opens 3:15 pm. General seating. Suggested donation: $10 [or what you will] Ticket reservations & information contact: Robert Anu: 215-219-7101,or atrueborn@yahoo.com
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The Unitarian Society of Germantown, a Unitarian Universalist congregation, serves the communities of Abington (zip code 19001), Ambler (zip code 19002), Elkins Park (zip code 19027), Glenside (zip code 19038), Jenkintown (zip code 19046), Merion Station (zip code 19066), Narberth (zip code 19072), Oreland (zip code 19075), Havertown (zip code 19083), Wyncote (zip code 19095), Wynnewood (zip code 19096), Philadelphia Chestnut Hill (zip code 19118), Wyndmoor (zip code 19118), Philadelphia Mt. Airy (zip code 19119), Philadelphia Roxborough (zip code 19128), Philadelphia East Falls (zip code 19129), Philadelphia Spring Garden (zip code 19130), Philadelphia Fairmount (zip code 19130), Philadelphia Wynnefield (zip code 19131), Philadelphia Germantown (zip code 19144), Blue Bell (zip code 19422), Gwyned (zip code 19436, Lansdale (zip code 19446), Bala Cynwyd (zip code 19004), Lafayette Hill (zip code 19444), Melrose Park (zip code 19027), Roslyn (zip code 19001), Rydan (zip code 19046), Laverock (zip code 19038), Plymouth Meeting (zip code 19462) , Flourtown (zip code 19031), Erdenheim, Cheltenham (zip code 19012), and Ft. Washington (zip code 19034). Visitors from any other location are equally welcome.