History, Natural History & the Arts
Not all New Yorkers experienced the freedoms promised by the American Revolution.
Panelists Paul and Mary Liz Stewart of the Underground Railroad Education Center, New York State Museum Chief Curator Dr. Jennifer Lemak, and Senior Historian of Social History Ashley Hopkins-Benton will discuss the ongoing work needed to bring equal rights to all communities at the New York State Museum on Sunday, October 22, 2023. [Read more…] about The Continuing Revolution for All New Yorkers
The Underground Railroad Education Center is set to continue it’s LibertyCon 2021 Zoom Series on October 23rd, from 3 to 4:30 pm, with Jennifer Burns, PhD presenting “Building Community through Free Black Migration before the Civil War.” [Read more…] about Free Black Migration before the Civil War
The Underground Railroad Education Center is set to continue it’s LibertyCon 2021 Zoom Series on September 25th, from 3 to 4:30 pm, with Darryl Omar Freeman presenting “Destined to Engage and Collaborate: Examining the Social/Political Dynamics of Native Americans and African Americans in the United States.” [Read more…] about Native Americans & African Americans Online Program
The Underground Railroad Education Center is set to continue it’s LibertyCon 2021 Zoom Series on August 21st, from 3 to 4:30 pm, with Rev. Phillip N. Grigsby presenting “Food Justice: Hunger, Child Poverty, and Farming while Black.” [Read more…] about Food Justice: Hunger, Child Poverty, and Farming While Black
The Underground Railroad Education Center is set to continue it’s LibertyCon 2021 Zoom Series on July 24th, from 3 to 4:30 pm, with Alan Singer, PhD and “Racist Violence is as American as Cherry Pie.” [Read more…] about An Alan Singer Program On American Racist Violence
The Ten Broeck Mansion, home of the Albany County Historical Association, has announced new Immersion Tours in partnership with five other historic sites and museums. The Immersion Tours allow the public to visit some of the Capital Region’s finest history museums in sequence, focusing on special topics: historic architecture and gardens, the role of enslaved persons, abolitionists, and immigration, and Native American voices. [Read more…] about 6 Albany Museum Sites Offering ‘Immersion’ Tours
One hundred years ago, in the wake of the Tulsa Race Massacre, wealthy African Americans from Oklahoma joined Little Liberia, an economic opportunity to improve the lives of African Americans in the U.S. through economic advancement in Mexico. They also created a sister organization, the International Community Welfare League, that sought to combat White supremacy, which they identified as a main culprit for racial inequality in the U.S and in the hemisphere. [Read more…] about Fighting White Supremacy After Tulsa
Mara Cherkasky first wrote about racially restrictive covenants in the mid-1990s and has been systematically documenting and mapping them in Washington, DC since 2014. Reviewing more than 100,000 property records and thus far finding racially restrictive covenants on more than 20,000 DC properties. [Read more…] about Historian Offering Primer On Documenting Racially Restrictive Covenants
The Underground Railroad Education Center is set to continue it’s LibertyCon 2021 Zoom Series on April 24th, from 3 to 4:30 pm, with Debbie-Ann Paige, MA, and Staten Island’s Freedom Struggles and the Underground Railroad. [Read more…] about Staten Island’s Freedom Struggles (Virtual Underground RR Talk)
In 1956, Dr. Dorothy L. Brown became the first single woman in Tennessee to legally adopt a child. This accomplishment was one of many firsts that Dr. Brown achieved in her storied life.
Once a ward of the Troy Orphan Asylum in Troy, NY, Brown was a leader in medicine and politics who authored a failed abortion law during her time as the first African-American Representative in the Tennessee General Assembly. [Read more…] about Troy’s Dorothy Brown: Single Women, Adoption & Abortion