Join Rosalyn Elder and the More Than Words Youth for a reading of, “A Ballad for Massachusetts.” This poem celebrates the accomplishments of 13 African American heroes in our history: Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman, George Middleton, Paul Cuffee, William and Ellen Craft, Sarah Roberts, the 54th Regiment, Marshall “Major” Taylor, Asa Phillip Randolph and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Melnea Cass, Malcolm X, Elma Lewis, and Mel King. A short lecture on the book, Exploring the Legacy will also be presented.

More Than Words is a nonprofit social enterprise that empowers young adults who are in the foster care system, court-involved, homeless, or out of school, to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.

All event attendees will receive a 20% off coupon to our bookstore and hot tea courtesy of More Than Words.

242 Berkley Street

Boston, MA 02118

www.mtwyouth.org

Africana Studies Department of UMass Boston presents Rosalyn Delores Elder in a lecture presentation on, “The Contributions of African American Women to the Legacy of Massachusetts.” Book signing to follow.

Campus Center, Ballroom B, 3rd Floor

University of Massachusetts Boston

100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA

Bristol Community College, Location TBD (New Bedford campus or Fall River campus)

Presentation of the five themes from the book, Exploring the Legacy: People and Places of Significance, (civil rights justice, defiance to slavery, military service, access to education, and employment fairness).  I will feature local figures such as Frederick Douglass, Paul Cuffe, Martha Bailey Briggs, Sgt. William Carney, Lucinda Clark, and Lucy Faggins.

State Library of Massachusetts                                                                                                    Massachusetts State House, 24 Beacon St., Room 341, Boston, MA 02133

This presentation will discuss the five themes I discovered in writing the book, Exploring the Legacy: People and Places of Significance

*    A Persistent Struggle for Civil Rights Justice;

*  A Defiance to Slavery;

*  Exemplary Military Service;

*  The Fight for Access to Education; and

*  The Fight for Employment Fairness.

Book Discussion and signing at the Boston Public Library, Copley Branch, at Copley Square in Boston, MA. 

Book Presentation and signing at the Jamaica Plain Branch of the Boston Public Library at 11 Sedgwick St, Jamaica plain, MA. 

Book Discussion and Signing at Porter Square Books in Porter Square, Cambridge, MA. 

Book Presentation and signing at the Grove Hall Branch of the Boston Public Library at 41 Geneva Ave., Dorchester, MA 02121

Book Presentation and signing at the West End Branch of the Boston Public Library at 151 Cambridge St., Boston, MA 0114.

We will be a vendor at the Salem Willows Black Festival

167 Fort Ave., Salem, MA

www.salemunitedinc.org

Book Presentation and signing at the Dudley Branch of the Boston Public Library at 65 Warren St., Roxbury, MA 0119

Vendor at the Juneteenth Celebration at the Museum of the National Center of African American Artists at 19 Walnut Ave., Roxbury, MA

Vendor at the Lynn, MA Juneteenth Celebration at Lynn Commons in Lynn, MA

Vendor at the Cambridge River Festival in Cambridge, MA

Book Presentation and Signing

Mattapan Public Library, 1350 Blue Hill Ave., Boston, MA 02126

Vendor at the Wake Up the Earth Festival in Jamaica Plain, MA at Stonybrook "T" Stationpla

Vendor at Harvard Sq. Mayfair in Cambridge, MA

We will participate as a Vendor at the Boston Book Festival.

Copley Square, Boston. 

We will participate in the Berklee Beantown Jazz festival as a vendor.