Riverside-based cultural organizations are partnering for the third time to supply a self-guided auto tour of key civil rights websites subsequent month, officers mentioned.
The free tour will start at 10 a.m. on April 5 at 4690 Victoria Ave., the positioning the place Lowell Faculty as soon as stood earlier than it was burned in a motion to desegregate Riverside colleges in 1965, in response to metropolis officers.
The second cease on the tour would be the Evergreen Memorial Historic Cemetery, the place dramatizations will spotlight notable historic figures buried there who performed roles in shaping the civil rights historical past of Riverside.
The tour will conclude on the Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California the place a panel dialogue will happen.
The three websites’ applications are supported by the Museum of Riverside, Inlandia Institute and the Middle for Social Justice & Civil Liberties. Collaborating organizations embody Empower You Edutainment, the Evergreen Memorial Historic Cemetery and the Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California.
The venture started in 2022, and is supported by California Humanities, a nonprofit accomplice of the Nationwide Endowment for the Humanities.
Those that want to make a reservation or obtain extra info can go to eventbrite.com/e/invisible-unheard-riversides-civil-rights-stories-2025-tickets-1261771084279?aff=oddtdtcreator.
