A symposium April 19-21 will be about Quindaro, its history and abolitionist politics.
The Freedom’s Frontier symposium will be at two sites. It is part of the process of designating the Quindaro ruins as a national historic landmark.
The keynote address by Dr. Quintard Taylor, University of Washington historian, will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 19, at the Kansas City Public Library’s Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., Kansas City, Missouri. Registration is necessary to https://www.kclibrary.org/signature-events/quindaro-coming-freedom-decade-civil-war.
The symposium sessions on Friday and Saturday, April 20-21, will be at Memorial Hall, 600 N. 7th St., Kansas City, Kansas. Register for the symposium at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Quindaro.
For more information, visit www.freedomsfrontier.org/pages/Quindaro_Symposium.