Past Events

Film: The Loving Story

In partnership with the Delaware Humanities Forum, the Lewes Library is hosting, “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle,” a series of four powerful documentaries that include dramatic scenes of incidents in the 150-year effort to achieve equal rights for all.

February 26, 2015 to
February 27, 2015

Meeting of Delaware Citizens Opposed to the Death Penalty

The monthly meeting of Delaware Citizens Opposed to the Death Penalty (DCODP) will take place at the Pacem in Terris office at Wilmington Friends Meetinghouse (401 N. West Street, 19801) at 5:30.
Meetings are always the fourth Monday of the month.

February 23, 2015

Film: Broken on All Sides

This event is part of the 2015 Pacem in Terris Winter Film & Discussion Series. The topic is mass incarceration and the New Jim Crow.
The evening will feature a screening of the documentary Broken on All Sides.

February 17, 2015 to
February 18, 2015

Speaker: Dr. James E. Newton on Martin Luther King, Jr.

James E. Newton, University of Delaware professor emeritus of Black American Studies, will provide an examination of Dr. King’s life, exploring his early years growing up in segregated Atlanta to his later years as a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

February 17, 2015 to
February 18, 2015

Film: Freedom Riders

In partnership with the Delaware Humanities Forum, the Lewes Library is hosting, “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle,” a series of four powerful documentaries that include dramatic scenes of incidents in the 150-year effort to achieve equal rights for all.

February 12, 2015 to
February 13, 2015

Film: American Denial

Join us at a free screening of award-winning documentary American Denial. In the wake of recent events that have sparked a national dialogue on race dynamics, American Denial explores the impact of unconscious biases around race and class, using Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 investigation of Jim Crow racism.

February 5, 2015

Meeting of Delaware Citizens Opposed to the Death Penalty

The monthly meeting of Delaware Citizens Opposed to the Death Penalty (DCODP) will take place at the Pacem in Terris office at Wilmington Friends Meetinghouse (401 N. West Street, 19801) at 5:30.
Meetings are always the fourth Monday of the month.

January 26, 2015

Sussex Progressives Community Dinner Meeting

Senator Townsend, a graduate of Delaware public schools and the University of Delaware, completed a master’s degree in Chinese at the University of Cambridge in England and Peking University in China, and a law degree at Yale Law School.

January 25, 2015 to
January 26, 2015