Critic's Pick: Beyond the Counter: Soundtrack of Civil Rights With Jefferson Street Sound Museum

The second part of the Woolworth Theatre’s “Beyond the Counter” Series focuses on music. The Jefferson Street Sound Museum is one of the city’s important music history institutions, keeping the keys to the great R&B, soul, blues, jazz and gospel legacy, especially in its 1960s heyday. (It was also recently added to the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, along with the Museum of Christian and Gospel Music.) Museum curator Lorenzo Washington was part of that history, and speaks on the subject to this day, a reminder that the civil rights movement is not in our distant past. For all of the trials and violence that happened during the movement, there were triumphs, and of course, meaningful art was made, too. Music is inextricable from social justice, and it’s especially poignant to learn about it (or just review its importance) at a historic site like the Woolworth Theatre.

5:30 p.m. at the Woolworth Theatre

223 Rep. John Lewis Way N.