YOUNGSTOWN — As Nonviolence Week locally and statewide draws closer to kicking off the first full week of October, Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past will host a slew of activities, events and programs Oct. 5 to 11.

The week will begin with the 15th annual Nonviolence Parade and Rally, set for 3 p.m. Oct. 5. Group and individual participants will gather outside of First Presbyterian Church of Youngstown at Wick Avenue and Wood Street; then after the parade through the downtown corridor, a program and peaceful rally will take place at the Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre.

Those scheduled to speak at the program will be students who had embarked on the annual Sojourn to the Past journey to civil rights sites in the South, along with Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of nine black students who integrated the all-white Central High School in September 1957 in Little Rock, Arkansas. She and the other eight became known collectively as the Little Rock Nine.

Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past also will be spearheading a Mingle with Minni fundraiser at 5 p.m. Oct. 6 at Flambeau’s Live, 2308 Market St., on the South Side. The gathering will be to honor Brown Trickey, who lives in British Columbia and continues her decades-long mission to travel the world as a social-justice, civil rights, environmental and peace activist. Cost is $25 per person at the door.

Also during her stay in the Mahoning Valley, Brown Trickey plans to address two third-grade classes — one each at 1 p.m. Oct. 6 at Harding Elementary School and the other at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 7 at Volney Rogers Elementary, Penny Wells, Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past’s director, said.

The annual Simeon Booker Award for Courage ceremony is set for 7 p.m. Oct. 7 at the Tyler History Center, 325 W. Federal St., downtown. The award is named in honor of Booker, who reported for Jet magazine on the tragic lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in August 1955 in Money, Mississippi. Booker, who’s from Youngstown, also was the Washington Post’s first black reporter.

The local award recipients will be the Rev. Gary Koerth and his wife, Cindy Koerth, who launched Glenwood Grounds Cafe to offer a greater sense of care, support, connectivity and community to neighborhoods on and near Glenwood Avenue while also working to tackle food insecurity.

The national recipient will be Jo Ann Bland of Selma, Alabama, a longtime voting and civil rights activist, U.S. Army veteran and advocate for justice. Bland was on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, a day infamously known as “Bloody Sunday,” in which Alabama state troopers and local police attacked about 600 peaceful marchers a few weeks before the famous 54-mile Selma-to-Montgomery march for voting rights. Bland also co-founded the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma to recognize and honor those who risked their safety and lives in the fight for equality.

The program is free. A 5:30 p.m. reception will precede the event and is $35 per person.

An art and poetry reception is set for 5 p.m. Oct. 8 at the main branch of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, 305 Wick Ave., near downtown. In addition, the day will include a noon event in Wick Park on the North Side at which Youngstown Rotary Club members will dedicate a pole to symbolize the need for greater peace.

Other events to round out the week will be a spoken word poetry session at 6 p.m. Oct. 9 in St. John’s Episcopal Church, 323 Wick Ave.; a nonviolence read, panel discussion and luncheon at noon Oct. 10 at the YWCA of Youngstown, 25 W. Rayen Ave.; an Art of Emotion gathering 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 11 at the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown for students in kindergarten through grade six; and a community conversation on the philosophy of nonviolence at 1 p.m. Oct. 11 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Youngstown, 1105 Elm St., on the North Side.

The panel will be made up of Brown Trickey; Carol Holmes-Chambers, Youngstown Area Goodwill Industries Inc.’s community solutions director; Samie Winick, a retired special education teacher in the Youngstown City Schools; and Shane Russo, who’s with First United Methodist Church.