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Thoreau Society: Civil Rights & Civil Disobedience
January 8 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
An exploration of Henry David Thoreau’s participation in the Underground Railroad, his abolitionist views, a night in jail and how his writings have inspired civil rights movements around the world.
Event being held on Jan. 8, 6:30-7:30pm at Lebowitz Meeting Hall, Morse Institute Library, 14 East Central Street
Registration for this event is suggested, but not required.
The Thoreau Society exists to stimulate interest in and foster education about Henry David Thoreau’s life, works, legacy and his place in his world and in ours.
Richard Smith has lectured on and written about antebellum United States history and 19th-Century American literature since 1995. He has worked in Concord as a public historian and Living History Interpreter for 25 years and has portrayed Henry Thoreau at Walden Pond, around the country and in Canada.
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