The Upper West Side of Manhattan is home to about 2 dozen sites connected with important people and moments in the quest for civil rights of all kinds. Our virtual tour will begin with an examination of NYC’s most prominent memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the one at Amsterdam Avenue and W. 66th St. We will de-code this most unusual and complicated sculpture, which most people walk past without being able to interpret its many letters and numbers. Further stops will relate to, among others, Harry Belafonte, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Elie Wiesel. An Upper West Sider whom many people are surprised to learn was a civil rights activist is the writer and humorist Dorothy Parker. We will end on Central Park North at the neighborhood’s newest civil rights commemoration.
Accessibility
Virtual walk is accessible to all.
