All posts tagged "African-American history"
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8.3K3Arts and LeisureSix (And More) Mothers Who Left a Mark on History
Mothers have always had to balance competing demands, and some of those who did it best made history. Mindful that Mother's Day...
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9.3K2bostonThe Sumner League, Connecticut’s Forgotten Civil Rights Society
The story was long forgotten: A New Haven bootblack became a leader in the fight against Jim Crow as president of a...
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11.3K1ConnecticutThe First Town Meeting Still Going in Six States
Town Meeting dates to the European settlement of New England, and it persists today in town halls, schools and auditoriums. Not to...
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30.5K12ConnecticutThe Secret History of New England’s Sundown Towns
“Whites Only Within City Limits After Dark” reads the faded road sign, an artifact on display at the Tubman African American Museum...
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35.3K6New HampshireWentworth Cheswell, the Black Man Who Rode With Revere
Wentworth Cheswell is considered New Hampshire’s first archaeologist and the first African-American elected to public office in the United States. He also...
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6.5K2Business and LaborMashpee Teen James Mye Ends Slavery for Indian Children
James Mye, a poor Indian boy, was apprenticed to a Nantucket couple whose children treated him like a slave. The commonwealth never...
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16.0K6MassachusettsTed Williams, The First Latin American Superstar
Few people knew Red Sox great Ted Williams had Mexican ancestry. That's because he didn't tell them. Teddy Samuel Williams was born...
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45.9K19Business and Labor6 of the Oldest Houses in New England
To make a claim for the oldest houses in New England inevitably invites controversy. The region has plenty of very old houses,...
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102.3K23MassachusettsWas Jackie Kennedy the 1st Black First Lady?
When First Lady Jackie Kennedy visited England in 1961, society photographer Cecil Beaton met her at a dinner party. In his journal...
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2.7K1Arts and LeisureNew England Places To Visit Now That It’s May
May is a wonderful month to visit New England places of historic interest. The dreary rain of April is behind us and...
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