All posts tagged "African-American"
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8.0K14Business and LaborPaul Cuffe and the Back-to-Africa Movement
The Back-to-Africa movement began with a wealthy mixed-race Quaker named Paul Cuffe. He brought African-American Bostonians to a Sierra Leone colony in...
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16.0K16MassachusettsThe Red, Black and White Men of Glover’s Regiment Take Washington Across the Delaware
John Glover’s Regiment of Marbleheaders accomplished an amazing feat on the night of Dec. 25, 1776. They ferried 2,400 men, plus horses and artillery,...
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15.1K15VermontFour Freedoms Didn’t Come Easy for Norman Rockwell
In May 1942, Norman Rockwell stopped by a drab bureaucrat’s office in the Pentagon and learned of the urgent need for images...
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11.7K15ConnecticutStep Right Up! 14 Little-Known Facts About The Entertaining Life of P.T. Barnum
Think you know all about P.T. Barnum, newspaper editor, progressive mayor and hospital founder? Though a legend for his hoaxes and his...
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8.9K4IrregularsDavid Walker, The Black Harriet Beecher Stowe
An African-American clothing store owner named David Walker wrote a 24-page pamphlet on Sept. 28, 1829 that may have done as much...
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7.2K11MassachusettsMalcolm X and Martin Luther King in Boston: One City, Two Different Worlds
When Martin Luther King, Jr., moved to Boston in 1951 to study for his graduate degree in philosophy, Malcolm X was already...
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