Young Abolitionist Leadership Institute, one of UREC's signature initiatives, will gather together Focus Group Facilitators for their in-person orientation at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence on Wednesday, June 8 at 5:30pm. Format and curriculum expectations will be explained and plans for Focus Groups and Enrichment experiences will be detailed. We're off and running with…
Hudson Valley Community College Office of Community & Professional Education will offer a credit free course at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence on WEdnesday, June 8. Tour The Myers Residence. Hear the voices of Black Abolitionists and Freedom Seekers who were part of the Underground Railroad movement, the first civil rights movement in the…
Often remembered as being characterized by tunnels, dark of night escapes, coded language and hidey-holes, the Underground Railroad was far more extensive and complex than these ideas have led us to believe. As the first integrated civil rights movement in the country, the Underground Railroad movement is the foundation of the legacy of emancipation history…
The Underground Railroad Revisited Paul and Mary Liz Stewart, independent researchers and Scholars in Residence at Russell Sage College, bring their seminal research on the Underground Railroad movement to the community. The Underground Railroad, often remembered as being characterized by tunnels, dark of night escapes, coded language and hidey-holes, was far more extensive and complex…
Be our guests at our free event, planned and presented by the teen participants in our Young Abolitionists Leadership Institute, for a day of food, community, and history at the Residence of local Underground Railroad Abolitionist activists Stephen and Harriet Myers, located at 194 Livingston Avenue! What is Juneteenth? On June 19, 1865, enslaved African-Americans…
Employees of M&T Bank will volunteer their time at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence on Tuesday, June 28 between 1pm-4pm. Anyone interested in joining in is welcome to do so. Work is intended to be outside on the Myers Residence Campus grounds. Thank you to Eric Dahl, Senior Vice President at M&T Bank for…
Young Abolitionist Leadership Institute 2022 (YALI 2022) is on! Twenty teens are assigned to work at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence for 20 hours a week for 5 weeks! We are excited about the Bicycle Your Way to Health Focus Group, the Photography and Videography Focus Group, and the Entrepreneurship Focus Group. Enrichment Fridays…
Checkout the website of Underground Railroad Consortium of NYS to learn more about what the collaborating partners are doing to bring New York State's abolition history forward. Podcasts, events, programs, and more are happening! Become a supporter of this important work!. Information is on the URCNYS website accessible at https://www.urcnys.org/ . Meetings…
GRANT OPPORTUNITY FOR AN EARLY-CAREER PHOTOGRAPHER If you are in the early stages of actively building a career as a professional photographer and not enrolled in an academic program leading to a degree in photography, consider applying for a one-time grant of $500, to be awarded after a juried application review. Deadline for submission of…
Experience an adult adventure in archaeology! Participate in a week-long dig at The Dr. Thomas Elkins property which is part of The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence Campus located in Albany, New York. Managed by Underground Railroad Education Center, The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence is an award-winning, National Register listed, documented Underground Railroad site…
Planning for FreedomCon 2023 has begun! Join this robust committee of enthusiastic volunteers as they look forward to 2023. Planning conversation hovers around transforming FreedomCon into FreedomFest - a family…
The Price of Half-Freedom is the story of the first free Black residents in what was to become New York and the events that led to their emancipation: a…
