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The African American Soldiers Who Built the Alaskan-Canadian Highway
Calendar Date:
Celebrating Black history in Alaska
with guest speaker Ted Carter
Join the Friends of the Homer Public Library and guest speaker Ted Carter for a presentation on the history of African American soldiers who built the Alaskan-Canadian Highway. For more on this topic, see the book We Fought the Road by Christine and Dennis McClure. This event will be held in-person and broadcast over Zoom.
About the speaker:
Ted Carter is a retired eighth grade science teacher from Cleveland, Ohio. He also taught in Anchorage at Clark Middle School – one of the most diverse middle schools in the United States for a year before moving to Homer, where he now lives.
Growing up near a suburb of Shaker Heights, a wealthy, white community he experienced social as well as physical barriers between the residence of Shaker Heights and those in his neighborhood when a once connected street was blocked off by a concrete barricade. This experience prompted him to lead discussion about possibilities and barriers.
Ted’s story has been featured on Ideastream Public Media.
As an eighth grader, he was inspired to be a science teacher after an eye opening canoe trip just outside the city. Having not grown up with such close encounters with nature he wanted to know more about the amazing world around him. So he pursed a science education and became a teacher.
Event Details:
Friday, March 25th at 6-7pm at the Homer Public Library.
This event is planned to be in-person in the fireplace lounge at the Homer Public Library. Due to COVID precautions, seating is limited to 25 people and reservations are required. Please register below. Masks are optional in the library.
You may also watch the event online through this Zoom link. No reservation is needed for the online broadcast.
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82776112976?pwd=MGpaK3BlWFQzYldIaTlYeEhTVGlXZz09
Passcode: highway
Webinar ID: 827 7611 2976
Questions? Email info@friendshomerlibrary.org
