HYDE PARK — The 150th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment will be marked with a movie and a pageant.
First Unitarian Church, 5650 S. Woodlawn Ave., will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the end of slavery at 6:30 p.m. Saturday with a pageant.
Re-enactors will revive Frederick Douglass, Thaddeus Stevens, Jefferson Davis, Mary Chesnut, Harriet Tubman to tell the story of slavery ending in the United States, including the story of Richard Henry Dana, who argued and won the case for constitutionality of the Emancipation decree before the Supreme Court.
The church will celebrate the milestone with music and dance after the pageant.
The church will host a free screening of “Lincoln” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the lead up to the anniversary.
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