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Online: Night with a Museum
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Tuesday, January 20
7:00pm - 8:00pm
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2026-01-20 19:00:00
2026-01-20 20:00:00
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Online: Night with a Museum
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In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, learn stories of the Civil Rights Movement from the collection of The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is a modern museum that serves as a connection to the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument, a collection of sites important to the Civil Rights Movement. Visitors can experience a rendition of a segregated city in the 1950s, as well as examine a replica of a Freedom Riders bus and even the actual jail cell door from behind which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. penned his famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” The institute is also home to an expansive archive of documents from the Civil Rights Movement and nearly 500 recorded oral histories relevant to the period.
This program is online on Zoom. After registering, you receive a link to the Zoom webinar at least three hours before the program. If the event is full, or if you prefer, you can watch the live stream on YouTube.com/@SchaumLib.
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The Schaumburg Township District Library serves in excess of 134,000 residents in portions of the municipalities Elk Grove Village, Hanover Park, Hoffman Estates, Schaumburg and Streamwood. With over 1 million visitors each year, the library circulates over 2,000,000 items annually and is the second largest public library in the state of Illinois.
