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LaGrange Memorial Library will host an African American cultures celebration to mark Black History Month.

The program, titled “A Moment in History,’’ is at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, at the library at 115 Alford St. and is sponsored by Friends of the Library.

Speaker is Cheryl Stiggers, who is active in several capacities in East Side Baptist Church in LaGrange and Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in LaFayette, Ala., where her husband, the Rev. Michael Stiggers, is pastor.

She is co-chair of the Ministers Wives of the Northeast District, has been a lecturer and music director for the Bowen East District, is co-director of the Gala for Christ Choir and serves on the youth and young adult team of the Bowen East District.

Stiggers retired from the Coweta County school system after teaching 34 years in Georgia. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and twice has been teacher of the year for the Troup County school system. Stiggers received the WRBL Golden Apple Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award from LaGrange College, where she was co-founder of the Black Alumni Association.

Ministers Efram and Rasheeta Jennings of Faith Temple Church of Deliverance in LaGrange will serve as emcees for the program.

Chattahoochee Rhythm Keepers, an African drumming unit directed by Amy Jackson, will perform before the program.

Music will be provided by Kenyetta Cotton, Kenyetta Hardaway-Chester and the Callaway High School chorus directed by Samantha Cotton. The Strings violin group from Berta Weathersbee Elementary and Troup High schools under the direction of Callie Hammond also will perform. 

Students from Callaway, LaGrange and Troup high schools will portray African American historical figures in a wax-museum fashion. One student from each school will dress as an important person  and another student will tell about that person’s contributions to black history.

Free books will be provided by United Way/Success By 6, and “Big Four Corners: An African American Business District” art exhibit by Felecia T. Moore will be on display.

The program is free and open to the public.