Event Space // 430 Tenth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 // 707-852-3029 // SACevents707@gmail.com
In honor of black history month, 2025
PEGGY TROTTER DAMMOND PREACELY
Acclaimed Freedom Rider, Civil Rights Activist, Artist & Speaker, Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely, is coming to Santa Rosa!
Co-sponsored by The Saturday Afternoon Club & The Nubian Café Collective.
We are privileged to host Ms. Preacely for a presentation that is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. This is a unique opportunity to hear first-hand about the historic Civil Rights Movement.
Co-sponsor: $200, includes 10 tickets & recognition in publicity
Individual Tickets: $25 each
Saturday, February 1, 2025 • 7:30pm
TICKETS ARE REQUIRED FOR ENTRY. SEATING IS LIMITED.
About Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely:
- Former Freedom Rider and active member of the historic Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
- Arrested in Maryland and Georgia for her courageous grassroots activism, empowering communities and registering Black voters in underserved rural areas.
- Witnessed history at the March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his legendary “I Have a Dream” speech, which helped pave the way for the Voting Rights Act of 1964
- Continued her fight for equality in the North, advocating against the de facto segregation of Boston schools.
- Proud descendant of a historic and influential family legacy: Mary Hemings Bell, sister of Sally Hemings. William Monroe Trotter, early civil rights pioneer, whose home is a designated National Historic Landmark. Ellen and William Craft, her great-great-grandparents, abolitionists who famously escaped enslavement in 1850s Atlanta through a daring disguise of white slave-owner and his slave.
- Serves on the Monticello “Getting Word” Advisory Board, comprised of descendants of those enslaved at Monticello.
Thank you for making our first ever paint party/fundraiser a success!
Grateful to these local business for their support!
