Calling all chess players from no experience to beginners to experts. Come play a historical game in a historical house. Boards and chess pieces provided. All are welcome the third Monday of every month. This event will be cancelled in April due to the COVID-19 pandemic. See you in May!
The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time. This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when those enslaved had been freed and the attempt was…
Do you like digging in the dirt? Researching? Drafting grant applications? Recordkeeping? Planning programs, exhibits, displays? This very active committee needs more volunteers to carry out its important work for URHP and for the community. Be part of the Collections Team! Current hot topics include selecting a gravestone for Stephen and Harriet Myers and planning…
Help bring the July 4th Oration to life by participating in the planning meetings. This annual program is a signature event of Underground Railroad History Project. Using Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech, What to the Slave is Your Fourth of July, as the framework for this event, the concepts and application of liberty, citizenship, civic engagement and…
In our increasingly polarized society, the symbol of the 19th century Underground Railroad movement and its abolition activists challenge us to publicly reflect and act upon the legacy of the institution of slavery in our contemporary times. (P. Stewart) As the first civil rights movement in the United States, the Underground Railroad movement provides a…
Partnering with Underground Railroad Education Center, acclaimed children’s educators and teaching artists Mariah Ralph and Yahoteh Kokayi of Harlem School of the Arts will lead children and their parents or caregivers through 30 minutes of music and interactive fun exploring themes of freedom, race, and community to a lively beat. The program will center around…
The Leadership Institute, as a service-learning program, is designed for 20 teens and is conducted across an 80-hour, four-week period that runs through July and August 2020. Small groups of teens work with professionals in Focus Groups learning and applying real world research and analysis and planning skills to a collaboratively agreed upon focus, which…
Due to COVID Young Abolitionist Leadership Institute Open House will be recorded and shared publicly following the recording. Please stay tuned for more information.
The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence welcomes you back! 5pm on September 7 is the official reopening to the public beginning. In order to insure everyone's safety, protocols have been put into place. Please visit https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/tours/ for information. We do ask that tickets be purchased online and that you call ahead to schedule your visit…
Members of The Capital District Humanist Society will join with Paul and Mary Liz Stewart for an in-person two hour tour experience at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence to learn about the involvement of Albany's Black activists in the Underground Railroad movement and the contemporary relevance of that activism with us today. Tour…
Do you like to dig in the dirt? Like to plant flowers? Like to beautify a garden? Then this service day is for YOU! Join forces with our Young Abolitionist Leadership Institute teens as they reclaim a once lovely Rock Garden that has languished over the last few years. Tucked in a corner of the…
Yours for the Oppressed, Harriet Myers - Grand Opening Exhibit Celebrating the Activism of Black Women Across Time Exhibit Opening begins at 2pm in the backyard of The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence. Paul and Mary Liz Stewart will provide a welcome, to be followed by Opening Remarks from curator Derek Healey. Poet and…
