Using the framework of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech, ‘What to the Slave is Your Fourth of July”, let us come together to reflect on the meaning of July 4th in the context of our current political and social climate. Guest Reader Jonathan Jones will read selected excerpts from Douglass's speech. Featured Speaker Gretchin Sorin…
The LibertyCon 2020 Planning Team invites you to join with them in the planning and implementation of this history-changing event. Meetings are held on the first Monday of each month from 5:30pm-7pm at The Myers Residence. Be an agent of change! Planning, marketing, fundraising, coordinating speakers and attendees and volunteers and vendors and exhibitors, recordkeeping and…
Do you like digging in the dirt? Researching? Drafting grant applications? Recordkeeping? Planning programs, exhibits, displays? Contributing to the development of the Collections Management System as we work to get our incredibly large collection of artifacts into a public facing, user friendly database? Then this committee is for YOU! This very active committee needs more…
DuBois, an incredible thinker and author who pushes beyond the limits of the American narrative with his challenging observations and interpretations. A must read and a great source of stimulating conversation. Du Bois published Black Reconstruction (BR) in 1935 with Harcourt, Brace and Company (New York). He completed it after leaving the NAACP and returning…
Monthly URHPCR Board Meetings are open to the public. Pay us a visit. Listen in on the discussions that inform implementation of the mission-based vision of URHPCR. Please contact Mary Liz Stewart, Executive Director, to inform her of your intent to attend. Mary Liz Stewart – (518) 621-7793 or https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/contact/