Audio tourMore Oberlin History Highlights: the Struggle for Racial Justice
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Audio tour Summary
Oberlin’s commitment to racial equality has a discontinuous history. This tour visits Oberlin monuments to explore its abolitionist heritage and contributions to the Civil War, and includes site that signaled the town’s rededication to African American struggles during the Civil Rights era.
This tour takes about 30 leisurely minutes, and was co-created for the Coalition for Oberlin History by Emerita Professor Carol Lasser and Miyah Byers, OC '20. Narrated by Miyah Byers.
- 1 Tour Beginning: South Main Street to Vine Street
- 2 Wilson Bruce Evans House
- 3 Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Monument
- 4 Harpers Ferry Monument
- 5 Martin Luther King Jr. Monument
- 6 Tuskegee Airmen Monument
- 7 War Memorial
- 8 Giles Shurtleff Statue
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Audio tour Summary
Oberlin’s commitment to racial equality has a discontinuous history. This tour visits Oberlin monuments to explore its abolitionist heritage and contributions to the Civil War, and includes site that signaled the town’s rededication to African American struggles during the Civil Rights era.
This tour takes about 30 leisurely minutes, and was co-created for the Coalition for Oberlin History by Emerita Professor Carol Lasser and Miyah Byers, OC '20. Narrated by Miyah Byers.
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