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AMISTAD Statue in New Haven

3:00 p.m.     Freedom Tour Ecumenical Service

                             Dixwell Avenue Congregational, U.C.C.

                            217 Dixwell Avenue, New Haven

Wednesday, June 20

6:00 - 9:00 p.m.     Reception at Maritime Center, Fusco Corp.

                    (Limited number of tickets are available)

Thursday, June 21

  9:00 a.m.    Youth Program,

                   New Haven Green, Small Stage

  9:30 a.m.    Interdenominational Service

                   United Church on the Green ( Elm Street)

10:30# 11:30 a.m. Ceremony at Sengbe Pieh Statue

                   (Next to City Hall, Church Street)

12:00# 1:00 p.m.    Concert on the Green,

                   U.S. Coast Guard Band

                   (International Festival of Arts & Ideas)

  1:30 p.m.    Amistad March

                   (From the Green to Long Wharf Pier)

  2:30 p.m.    Farewell Ceremony at Long Wharf Pier

  5:30 p.m.    Public Lecture - Dr. Clifton Johnson

                   New Haven Museum

                   (International Festival of Arts & Ideas)

Amistad Committee, Inc., organized in 1988, commissioned the statue of Sengbe Pieh and fellow Sierra Leoneans that sits in front of the City Hall of New Haven, the former site of the jail where the captives were imprisoned. The Connecticut General Assembly in 1995 mandated the Committee to organize and coordinate the official State of Connecticut Freedom Trail. It continues its mission to bring the lessons of the Amistad story for contemporary United States.

AMISTAD America, Inc., was created as a consortium between Mystic Seaport, the Connecticut Afro-American Historical Society, the Amistad Committee of New Haven, Amistad Affiliates of New York and other interested individuals working in partnership to promote the Amistad project.  Since Amistad was launched in March of 2000, hundreds of thousands of individuals have crossed her decks. In the past several years, Amistad America has grown from a small regional resource to an organization with international influence.

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