Project 2-3-1 - a documentary and Q&A
Two boxcars full of escaped slaves arrived in Elgin in 1862. Most of them settled in three segregated city blocks known as The Settlement. Eventually, they merged with their white neighbors to form one city. Come to Bartlett Public Library to view this documentary with a Q&A afterwards with the producer, Phil Broxham, and narrators, Ernie Broadnax and Jerry Turnquist.
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