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Lunch Lectures: African American Soldiers at Camp Grant

Lunch Lectures: African American Soldiers at Camp Grant

Wed

03

Feb

Lunch Lectures: African American Soldiers at Camp Grant

Midway Village Museum

Midway Village Museum

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Wednesday, February 03

12:00 PM - 11:59 PM


Midway Village Museum

6799 Guilford Road, Rockford, IL 61107

815-397-9112

Midway Village Museum

admin@midwayvillage.com

$7.00

History: Stories Of Our Past


Lunch Lectures On Zoom


This seven-week series offers you the chance to connect with Rockford's past in a lunch and learn program format. Learn about Rockford's history through these informative lectures presented by professional museum staff and local historians.


Wednesday, February 3 . Noon

African American Soldiers at Camp Grant

Speaker: Joyce Higgins


Rockford Local Historian & Author

the AARC at Booker, formerly the Colored Soldiers' Club, is a winning implication born out of the need for the U.S. Army to segregate the colored soldiers from their white counterparts in World War I. Many Organizations established during this time still exist today.


Read below for a listing of other Lunch Lectures:


Wednesday, January 6 . Noon

Sock Monkeys

& Rockford's Industrial Past

Speaker: Caitlin Treece

Educator, Midway Village Museum


Thursday, January 21 . Noon

History of the Pledge of Allegiance

Speaker: Sue Saunders

History Interpreter

Midway Village Museum

Please note this is a THURSDAY lecture. The original Wednesday date is the day of the United States

Presidential inauguration.


Wednesday, February 17 . Noon

Rockford and the Negro

Motorist's Green Book

Speaker: Laura Furman,

Curator, Midway Village Museum


Wednesday, March 3 . Noon

The Amazing Bessica Raiche

Speaker: Dave Eisele

History Interpreter

Midway Village Museum


Wednesday, March 17 . Noon

The Suffrage Movement

Speaker: Laura Furman

Curator, Midway Village Museum


Wednesday, March 31 . Noon

Rockford Peaches

Speaker: Caitlin Treece

Educator, Midway Village Museum


Cost:

$7 per person

Museum Members are free


To Register: online at www.midwayvillage.com or

call 815-397-9112.


Museum Members should call the museum and speak to a

Front Desk representative to register at 815-397-9112.

A Zoom link is sent to your email following the registration deadline each Wednesday prior to the start of the program. The Zoom program link will be sent to you the morning on the day of that program.


You must register for each program separately.

If you are not available to attend via Zoom contact Caitlin Treece, Educator, at 815-397-9112, ext. 106 or email educator@midwayvillage.com for more options.

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