Presented in Partnership with Door County Civility Project and Just Door County Tickets: Freewill Donations Encouraged Date: Saturday, February 8, 2020 | Time: 10 a.m. With the abolition of slavery, the United States entered the period of Reconstruction, which historian Eric Foner calls “the unfinished revolution.” The meaning of freedom for African-Americans, and in fact all Americans, remained in question. That “revolution” began again in the mid-twentieth century with the civil rights movement, which some historians refer to as the…

Presented in Partnership with Door County Civility Project and League of Women Voters Tickets: Freewill Donations Encouraged Date: Saturday, February 22, 2020 | Time: 10 a.m. How did the women's rights movement win passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, and what lesson can we learn from that victory? One hundred years after women won the constitutional right to vote, we will examine the history of the suffrage movement alongside battles that were left unfinished. We will also consider how the legacy…

Presented in Partnership with Door County Civility Project Tickets: Freewill Donations Encouraged Date: Saturday, February 29, 2020 | Time: 10 a.m. Speaking at a Fourth of July celebration in 1860, the formerly enslaved Frederick Douglass famously asked his audience: “Why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence?” With this fierce denunciation of American hypocrisy—that the country would celebrate liberty and equality while so many remained enslaved…