All posts tagged "racism"
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2.8KMassachusettsBenjamin Roberts Fights To Integrate Massachusetts Schools—and Wins in 1855
Before the Civil War, Benjamin Roberts lost, and then won, his fight to integrate Boston’s schools. And then after he died, he...
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4.7K1Politics and MilitaryBuffalo Soldiers Come Out to Vermont
In July of 1909, 750 African-American men known as Buffalo soldiers arrived at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester, Vt., near the small...
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10.5KBusiness and LaborThe Ku Klux Klan Fights the Battle of Greenville, Maine
In 1924, dozens of Ku Klux Klan members paraded through the tiny logging town of Greenville, Maine, to bully some outsiders into...
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10.1K3New HampshireThe Canaan Mob Destroys the Noyes Academy, Foreshadowing the Civil War
In 1834 a group of New Hampshire abolitionists decided to establish a school for black students. At first, Noyes Academy seemed relatively...
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