Join us Thursday, October 14, 7 p.m. for an evening with Desiree Cooper and Aaron Schillinger as they present the Sarah E. Ray Project<https://www.detroitsotherrosaparks.com/>. Seventy-five years ago a 24-year-old, African American secretary was denied a seat on the segregated Boblo boat, SS Columbia. Like Rosa Parks, she refused to back down, taking her fight for integration all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Represented by fabled NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall, Ray won her case. Scholars argue that she paved the way for the seminal, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education, which found that separate was inherently unequal. Ray's abandoned home on the eastside of Detroit was named one of America's '11 Most Endangered Historic Sites' by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in June 2021. Cooper is a former attorney, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist, and community activist. Schillinger is a filmmaker whose documentary "Boblo Boats: A Detroit Ferry Tale" screened to a sold-out crowd at the Freep Film Festival last month and was awarded the Hometown Talent Award. Register for this zoom presentation<https://gplib.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=58974&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2021/10/13> on the library's online calendar and the zoom link will be emailed to you. [cid:image003.jpg@01D7C02B.A743BCC0]PRISCILLA BURNS REFERENCE LIBRARIAN 313.343.2074 ext. 1212 Expand learning, inspire creativity and connect our community grossepointelibrary.org
