4th Annual Black History Parade & Pop-Up

From the venue:

On Saturday, February 22, in Downtown Cartersville, Black Bartow Events will hold its 4th Annual Black History Parade and Pop-Up. The parade itself will feature the Jonesboro High School Majestic Marching Cardinals, as well as floats, dance teams and more. Following the parade, Cartersville’s Friendship Plaza will play host to live music, food vendors and pop-up shops owned and operated by locally-owned and operated Black businesses and nonprofits.

Cartersville itself is a hidden hub of Black history, including the massively influential Summer Hill school and community, the grave of Melvinia ‘Mattie’ Shields, the Black Pioneer Cemetery, and many other moving stories and landmarks now memorialized in the area. In particular, downtown Cartersville is home to one of the Toni Morrison Society’s Benches by the Road to honor the generations of the Black diaspora that passed through the Cartersville Train Depot.