Encore HISTORY REVEALED: THE NIGHT THOREAU SPENT IN JAIL AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE JULY 1846

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History, Virtual Program

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Adults, 20s and 30s, Seniors
Registration for this event will be open from March 20, 2025 @ 12:00am to April 8, 2025 @ 12:00am.

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While living at Walden Pond in July 1846, writer Henry David Thoreau was put in jail refusing to pay a tax he believed supported an unjust war, The Mexican American War, and slavery. He wrote an essay about it now called Civil Disobedience which influenced Mahatma Ghandi in India and Martin Luther King in America.