Past cultural events in Attleboro include:

• January 21, 2013 - Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Celebration, Municipal Program, Interfaith Service, organized by the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Committee Of Greater Attleboro
• October 23, 2012 - Jim Crow in Today's Courtroom, Discussion at BCC, part of the Attleboro's 1 ABC ‘Big Read' -‘To Kill a Mockingbird'-Program of the National Endowment for the Arts
• October 13, 2012 - Jim Crow and The Blues, featuring Shor'ty Billups and the Foxxx Band - part of the Attleboro's 1 ABC ‘Big Read' Program of the National Endowment for the Arts - sponsored by the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Committee of Greater Attleboro
• October 15, 2011 - ‘Reading Frederick Douglass' A Mass Humanities statewide communal reading program; ACHR presents Frederick Douglass' speech, ‘The Meaning of the Fourth of July for The Negro'
• September 24, 2011 - They Call Me Lizzy...from Slavery to the White House - a Theatrical stage production written by Kandie Carle, produced by the East Haddam Stage Company; presented by The Big Read/Attleboro's 1 ABC and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Committee of Greater Attleboro
• March 2011 - Becoming American - The Latino Experience: Panel discussions based on the book ‘Enrique's Journey' and the movie ‘Under the Same Sun' - Presented by Attleboro's 1 ABC, Attleboro Cultural Council - Sponsors-The Attleboro Council on Human Rights, The Literacy Center, Congregation Agudas Achim, The Sun Chronicle, The India Association of Rhode Island