Daniel Stewart Memorial Award – Planning Meeting
OnlineJoin with UREC Board members and volunteers in the planning of the Daniel Stewart Memorial Award. Daniel was an avid photographer and used his photographic skills on behalf of UREC…
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Myers Residence Library Development Team
The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, United StatesJoin with a highly skilled librarian and volunteers in bringing The Myers Residence Library to life! Numerous books have been donated over time and they need to be catalogued so…
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Open Mic Coffee House – GETTING SILLY in SEPTEMBER
OnlineUnderground Railroad Education Center is excited to host its fourth Open Mic Coffee House. This September UREC is looking for some laughs and lighthearted humor to start the fall season…
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Coffee at St. Vincent’s – St. Vincent’s on a Mission
St. Vincent DePaul Church 900 Madison Avenue, Albany, New YorkVisit with Paul and Mary Liz Stewart on Sunday, September 19 at refreshments following the 8:30am and 11am liturgies. Learn about Underground Railroad Education Center (UREC), its mission, its initiatives,…
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Myers Residence Library Development Team
The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, United StatesJoin with a highly skilled librarian and volunteers in bringing The Myers Residence Library to life! Numerous books have been donated over time and they need to be catalogued so…
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FreedomCon 2021 – Destined to Engage and Collaborate: Examining the Social/Political Dynamics of Native Americans and African Americans in the United States
OnlineThrough anecdotal historical and contemporary narratives, this seminar presents compelling evidence that Native Americans and African Americans have provided unique intertwining social, political and cultural contributions to the development of our United States society. This symbiotic relationship contributed to establishing collaborative agency between these similarly oppressed people in their efforts to gain equal rights and…
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Myers Residence Library Development Team
The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, United StatesJoin with a highly skilled librarian and volunteers in bringing The Myers Residence Library to life! Numerous books have been donated over time and they need to be catalogued so…
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Conference on Black History in the Hudson Valley 2021
Hudson River Maritime Museum 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston, NYJoin the Hudson River Maritime Museum, The Library at the A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Center, TMI Project's Black Stories Matter, the Underground Railroad Education Center, and Harambee/the Pine Street African Burial Ground for this year's…
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FreedomCon 2021 – Building Community through Free Black Migration before the Civil War
OnlineThe scholarship on the Underground Railroad movement and the Great Migration is vast but little attention has been paid to the voluntary migratory patterns of free black Americans before the Civil War. Dr. Jennifer Thompson Burns will shine light on the importance of studying the antebellum migratory patterns of free Black Americans in the tri-city…
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“We Took to Ourselves Liberty” – The Underground Railroad in Oneida County, NY
Online via Zoom“‘We took to ourselves liberty”: Historic Sites Relating to the Underground Railroad, Abolitionism, and African American Life in Oneida County and Beyond.” The Underground Railroad was one of America’s monumental stories,…
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Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Online"Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad focuses on seaborne escapes of enslaved African Americans along the eastern seaboard. Contemporary scholarship and teaching about the Underground Railroad focus…
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Historic Preservation Fund Grant Programs Webinar
OnlineIn 2022, the Historic Preservation Fund will fund more than $150 million in projects to assist communities with historic preservation and conservation projects. On Wednesday, November 4 at 4:30pm EDT,…
