TriviaTime! With Katie and Abbie: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Join sisters Katie and Abbie for some fun trivia! Today's theme: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Join sisters Katie and Abbie for some fun trivia! Today's theme: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
From timeless tear jerkers to classic comedy, you have to love a love story around Valentine's Day. Join Katie and Abbie for trivia on love stories from books, movies, and more!
Join sisters Katie and Abbie for some fun trivia! Today's theme: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Join sisters Katie and Abbie for some fun trivia! Today's theme: The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
Join sisters Katie and Abbie for some fun trivia! Today's theme: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Discover tools you can use from home to develop your family tree!
Mary Henderson, professional genealogist, will provide an overview of genealogy resources that are available to AADL patrons at home. In this session, Mary will discuss MyHeritage Library Edition.
Join AADL Staff as they share creative projects based on a weekly theme. This week's theme: Paper!
In Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech, he discusses the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike. In support of the sanitation workers, he urges the audience to participate in nonviolent direct action as well as use their buying power strategically by supporting Black businesses and business that had fair practices. Famously, he ponders his own mortality in this speech given the day before he was assassinated.
Click here to see all videos in the In His Own Words series, part of our 2022 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration.
The Chicago Freedom Movement, supported by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Chicago-based Coordinating Council of Community Organizations sought, a variety of civil rights gains in Chicago. King delivered a speech at the Chicago Freedom Festival, a concert that raised over $100,000 to support the movement, to an interracial crowd of around 12,000. In the speech, he focused on issues impacting Chicago sums and encouraged the audience to participate in nonviolent protest in the spring.
In Letter from a Birmingham Jail, King addresses criticism, point-by-point, that he received from local religious leaders about the tactics that King, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Birmingham’s local civil rights movement used, putting pressure on Birmingham merchants during a busy shopping season, in order to move toward desegregation.
Click here to see all videos in the In His Own Words series, part of our 2022 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration.