Saturday, February 13, 1-3 p.m.
Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers Performance
Institute Admission Fee for nonmembers
Thursday, February 25, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
February Monthly Community Night
Lela Bond Phillips and Karan Pittman, “Reflections on The Lena Baker Story”
Book signing (The Lena Baker Story) will follow presentation
Free and Open to the Public
Saturday, March 13, 1-3 p.m.
Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers Performance
Institute Admission Fee for nonmembers
Thursday, March 25, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
March Monthly Community Night
Susan Eva O’Donovan, “Slavery and the Transition to Freedom in Southwest Georgia”
Book signing (Becoming Free in the Cotton South) will follow presentation
Free and Open to the Public
Saturday, April 10, 1-3 p.m.
Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers Performance
Institute Admission Fee for nonmembers
Thursday, April 29, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
April Monthly Community Night
Rev. Henry Buchanan, “Preaching Desegregation in 1954 Southwest Georgia”
Book signing (The Shellman Story) will follow presentation
Free and Open to the Public
Saturday, May 8, 1-3 p.m.
Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers Performance
Institute Admission Fee for nonmembers
Thursday, May 27, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
May Monthly Community Night
Wilma King, “Slavery’s Impact on African American Women and Children”
Book signing will follow presentation
Free and Open to the Public
Saturday, June 12, 1-3 p.m.
Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers Performance
Institute Admission Fee for nonmembers
Thursday, June 24, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
June Monthly Community Night
Khalil G. Muhammad, “The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America”
Book signing will follow presentation
Free and Open to the Public
Saturday, July 10, 1-3 p.m.
Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers Performance
Institute Admission Fee for nonmembers
Thursday, July 29, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
July Monthly Community Night
“African American Childbirth during Jim Crow: Albany and Camilla.” This presentation will feature the film, All My Babies, about Albany Midwife Mary Coley, and a panel discussion about Miss Bea’s, a Camilla facility where African American babies were born. Speakers include Mrs. Arilla Smiley, a midwife at Miss Bea’s, Jacquelyn Briscoe, and Camilla’s first African American mayor, Mary Jo Haywood.
Free and Open to the Public
Saturday, August 14, 1-3 p.m.
Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers Performance
Institute Admission Fee for nonmembers
Thursday, August 26, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
August Monthly Community Night
Racquel Henry, “Through the Lenses of Many: A Look at the Different Perspectives Concerning the Civil Rights Movement.”
Free and Open to the Public
Saturday, September 11, 1-3 p.m.
Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers Performance
Institute Admission Fee for nonmembers
Thursday, September 23, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
September Monthly Community Night
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, “Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt”
Book signing will follow presentation
Free and Open to the Public
Saturday, October 9, 1-3 p.m.
Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers Performance
Institute Admission Fee for nonmembers
Thursday, November 4, 7:30 p.m.
October Monthly Community Night has been moved to November 4
“An Evening with Winfred Rembert, African American Artist”
This Community Night is cosponsored by the Albany Area Arts Council, Inc.
Free and Open to the Public
Saturday, November 13, 1-3 p.m.
Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers Performance
Institute Admission Fee for nonmembers
Thursday, November 18, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
November Monthly Community Night
Joan Browning and Lenora Taitt-Magubane, “Riding to Freedom: The December 1961 Albany Freedom Ride”
Book signing will follow presentation
This Community Night is part of a special two-day celebration of the new PBS film on the Freedom Riders, sponsored by the Georgia Humanities Council, Albany State University, Thronateeska Heritage Center, and ACRI.
Free and Open to the Public
Saturday, December 11, 1-3 p.m.
Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers Performance
Institute Admission Fee for nonmembers
Thursday, December 16, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
December Monthly Community Night
Donald T. Hata, “Japanese American Civil Rights and American Concentration Camps”
Book signing will follow presentation
Free and Open to the Public
Saturday, January 8, 2011, 1-3 p.m.
Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers Performance
Institute Admission Fee for nonmembers
Thursday, January 27, 2011, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
January Monthly Community Night
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Pat Chatmon Perryman, Mary Jones Wright, Grady Caldwell, and Robert D. Thomas, Jr., “Back to School/Integration 101”
Free and Open to the Public
Saturday, February 12, 2011, 1-3 p.m.
Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers Performance
Institute Admission Fee for nonmembers
Thursday, February 24, 2011, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
February Monthly Community Night
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Free and Open to the Public
Saturday, March 12, 2011, 1-3 p.m.
Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers Performance
Institute Admission Fee for nonmembers
Thursday, March 24, 2011, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
March Monthly Community Night Fundraiser
Charles and Shirley Sherrod, “Reflections on the Civil Rights Movement in Southwest Georgia”
Tickets go on sale in January
