The 50th anniversary of the 1959 Theatre Boycott will be celebrated tomorrow with A 'Walk Through History' in Flatts Village.

The boycott orchestrated by a secret team called the Progressive Group and its leader Dr. Stanley Ratteray had been meeting in secret in a Flatts home owned by Rosalind and Edouard Williams in the weeks leading up to the Theatre Boycott.

They planned and publicised the action taken by dispersing flyers around the Island, advising people to stay away from the theatres. They wanted a total transformation of Bermuda society and to end the social injustices of the time.

The boycott lasted two weeks until theatre, hotel and restaurant owners capitulated.

They announced that black people could sit wherever they wanted in cinemas and that people would no longer be turned away from restaurants or hotels because of the colour of their skin.

Imagine Bermuda 2009 plan to highlight events which let to the progressive group's first secret meeting such as tracing the steps of the Progressive Group members to their first Secret meeting right through to the Theatre Boycott.

Talks will be given from William Zuill Sr. on the link of Whitney Institute to the invention of the Radio; Karen McPhee on great-grandfather Clarence Darrell — noted 'Flattsonian'; Louis Mowbrey on grandfather's role at Aquariums in Bermuda, Boston and New York City and C.V. (Jim) Woolridge on Flatts Cricket and the Eastern Counties.

Parking will be available at Whitney Institute and events will commence at 2.30 p.m.