The Columbus Marcus Garvey Parade

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Sep

21

11:00pm

The Columbus Marcus Garvey Parade

By Columbus Metropolitan Library

The Columbus

Marcus Garvey Parade

Thursday, Sept. 21 | 7 p.m.

Join us to celebrate the centenary of the Marcus Garvey Parade that took place on Mt. Vernon Avenue on September 25, 1923. Professor Mark Christian, grandson of the parade’s organizer, will share the story of this historic event that Aminah Robinson memorialized in her Blackberry Patch mural that is displayed on the stairs at the Main Library.

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