Mary Meachum Freedom Crossing Celebration

Come Celebrate the 20th ANNUAL Mary Meachum Freedom Crossing Celebration
•    Annual Event on Mississippi Greenway that tells the often untold  & unknown stories of  African Americans in St. Louis- not only the injustices they endured but also their accomplishments & triumphs
•    Takes places at Missouri’s first nationally recognized Underground Railroad site—Mississippi Greenway (Riverfront Trail) in St. Louis
•    Saturday October 1, noon to 5 free

•    FREE Live Music all day, food and drink for purchase, children’s games, historical reenactments & more! 
•    This year’s reenactments will be drawn from the past twenty years:
o    The Unfair Fair- racism at the St. Louis World’s Fair
o    Buffalo Soldiers and Bicycles-the incredible journal from Montana to St. Louis
o    Great Jubilation- how the end of slavery was celebrated
o    Beginnings of a Brave New World- the beginnings of Black cultural institutions

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