23Feb Going for Freedom: True Accounts of Flight in Verse 2:30pm

Southeast Library

Celebrate Black History Month at the Southeast Neighborhood Library! In costume and using monologue and original poetry, Marcia E. Cole will recount dramatic and imaginative escapes on the Underground Railroad with her performance, ‘Going for Freedom’. Tales highlight the daring exhibited and the importance of collaboration with black and white sympathizers. 

Marcia E. Cole is a graduate of the University of the District of Columbia. She is passionate about literacy, history and all art forms and believes the arts are particularly effective as teaching tools.