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Lines That Shaped Freedom: Trouble on Route 40

Tuesday, May 12th, 2026 06:30 pm
St. John's Episcopal
114 N. Union Avenue
Havre de Grace, MD 21078-3117
4109392107


In our Beyond the Obvious Speaker Series, Part Two of Lines That Shaped Freedom brings us forward to Route 40, where local roads met global history. During the Cold War, newly independent African diplomats encountered segregation while traveling through northeastern Maryland and Delaware—sparking an international incident that drew the Kennedy administration into action and placed the region in the worldwide spotlight of the Civil Rights era. Speaker: Mike Dixon, Professor, Harford Community College.

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