NAACP Hosts Symposium on Equality, Economics and Education at AACC

State and local leaders of the NAACP will host a panel Thursday reflecting on the 50 years since the March on Washington.

The panel will take place at the Robert E. Kauffman Theater at the Arnold campus of Anne Arundel Community College Thursday from 9:30-11 a.m.

The keynote speaker is James Stewart, of Atlanta, who led the 1963 Birmingham Children's March, attended the March on Washington and was a pallbearer for his friend, Carol Robinson, one of the four young girls killed in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

Foot soldiers from the area that marched on Washington in 1963 have also been invited to speak at the event.

In August, hundreds joined in a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the march in Annapolis, where a memorial was dedicated to the foot soldiers.