The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum Traveling Exhibit Coming to Panama City

Panama City, Florida – The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum Traveling Exhibit is coming to Panama City on February 13th through the 15th.

The Panama City Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) is honored to host the wax figure exhibition “Being Literate, Being Free” in conjunction with Black History Month. The exhibit highlights historical personalities for whom literacy was the key to a future of freedom and hope.

The wax figures to be displayed are:
• Frederick Douglass, social reformer, abolitionist, orator
• Mary Elizabeth Bowser, union spy during Civil War
• Lewis Latimer, inventor, draftsman, contributor to the invention of the first telephone
• Zora Neale Hurston, Author/Anthropologist
• Granville T. Woods, Inventor: Electronics, Transportation and Telecommunication
• Mary Eliza Mahoney, First Licensed African American Nurse

A Heritage Program will be held on February 13th at 5:30 p.m. at the A.D. Harris Learning Village, located at 819 E. 11th Street. A reception, sponsored by ACURE, will follow the program. The exhibit will also be available to view on February 14th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and February 15th from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at A.D. Harris.