The Upper West Side of Manhattan is home to about 20 sites connected with important leaders and activists in U.S. civil rights history. Our 50-minute virtual tour will begin with an examination of NYC’s most prominent memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at West 66th St. and Amsterdam Avenue. 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. And there is a brand new commemoration of the “Central Park Five,” now known as the “Exonerated Five.”
Accessibility
Online so anyone can access
Location Information
RSVP is required and capacity is limited. Meeting location, ending location, and directions will be provided via email before walk date.
