All posts tagged "discrimination"
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12.4Kboston7 Fun Facts About the Boston Irish
George Washington famously acknowledge the Boston Irish on March 17, 1776, when he ordered new code words to pass through Continental Army...
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6.3KConnecticutConstance Baker Motley Faces Down Racism
Constance Baker Motley encountered overt racism for the first time when she left her home in New Haven to attend Fisk College...
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6.0K1Massachusetts9 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Bobby Kennedy
Many viewed the death of Bobby Kennedy in 1968 as the loss of the last great leader. Assassins’ bullets had taken the...
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9.1K10ConnecticutSix Amazing Indian Women From New England
Indian women faced double discrimination since the first European colonists arrived in the Americas. Many fought back against the prejudice that destroyed...
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17.1K9MassachusettsHow the Slave Trade Took Root in New England
On Feb. 28, 1638, the slave trade probably began in New England when a ship arrived in Massachusetts Bay from the West...
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5.8K3MassachusettsFive Fast Facts About the New England Roots of W.E.B. Du Bois
The New England roots of W.E.B. Du Bois shaped his thought and his activism, and led to his rise as a leading...
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45.4K8Massachusetts15 Facts About the 1978 Blizzard
In Connecticut they called it ‘Storm Larry.’ But to anyone old enough to remember, the words ‘1978 blizzard’ conjure up some very...
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6.3K2Rhode IslandHow Percy Marks Got Fired from Brown for Exposing the Depravities of the Ivy League
In 1924, an obscure Brown University English instructor named Percy Marks rocketed to fame with his first novel, The Plastic Age, an...
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16.9K9Business and LaborSix Irish Landmarks in New England
Irish landmarks commemorate the history of Irish immigrants in places you might not expect throughout New England. There’s more to Irish-American history...
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37.9K13ConnecticutThe 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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