LITTLE ROCK — Here are some events and locations
of events commemorating the
desegregation of Central High
School. A complete schedule is
available at:
TODAY
"Unity in the Community"
Bullock Temple CME Church, 1513
S. Park St., Little Rock
(501) 375-1581
At 1 p.m., a Unity in the Community
walk. Then, at 2 p.m., a 50-year time
capsule presentation at the church.
Ecumenical Service
Robinson Center Music Hall,
Broadway and Markham Street,
Little Rock
3 p.m.
Concert Honoring the Little Rock
NineRiverfest Amphitheatre Doors open at 3 p.m.
The concert features Cameo, Howard Hewitt, Midnight Star , Morris Day, Nikki Parish, Reina and the SOS Band.
Advance tickets are $30 and VIP seating is $50. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster at (501) 975-7575 or online at http://www.ticketmaster.com/.
Tickets are also available at all Ticketmaster locations including Budget Savers, Audio Express, FYE in Hot Springs and selected Harvest Foods.
"Little Rock Nine Remembered"
Heifer International Headquarters, 1 World Ave., Little Rock 6 p.m.
The National Association of Black Journalists' symposium. The panelists include award-winning journalist and former NABJ President Dorothy Butler Gilliam, a reporter who covered the desegregation of Central High School in 1957 in Little Rock; Andrew Withers, the son of photojournalist Ernest C.
Withers, who chronicled the civil
rights movement; Arkansas attorney
Christopher Columbus Mercer Jr.,
an adviser to Daisy Bates in 1957
and field secretary for the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People; Debrah Mitchell, the
editorial director/co-owner of Stand!
News; and Katherine Mitchell, Little
Rock School Board president.
MONDAY
Dedication of new Central High
Visitor Center
2125 Daisy L. Gatson Bates Drive,
Little Rock
10 a.m.
(501) 374-1957
http://www.nps.gov/chsc/index.htm
Congressman John Lewis, speaker.
The Little Rock Nine will attend.
Guests include the Freedom Singers;
Nikki Giovanni, artist and writer;
Cyrus Bahrassa, Central High senior
and Student Council President; and
members of the U.S. Army's 101st
Airborne Division and the Arkansas
National Guard. All available tickets
for seating have been distributed.
Standing room is available around the event site. No tickets are required for standing room.
Harold Ford Jr., chairman for the Democratic Leadership Council Robinson Center: The Barry Travis Exhibition Hall 2 p.m.
(501) 683-5200 Ford, a former Tennessee congressman, will lecture as part of the Distinguished Speakers series produced by the University of Arkansas' Clinton School of Public Service.
Little Rock Nine Gala Statehouse Convention Center Wally Allen Ballroom http://www.littlerock9.com/ Former President Clinton is the keynote speaker for the Little Rock Nine's 50th Anniversary Celebration and Scholarship Awards Gala. U.S.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will introduce him. Proceeds support the Little Rock Nine Foundation's Scholarship and Mentoring Program. (The event is sold out.)
Arkansas, Pages 22 on 09/23/2007