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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 – ch.5 – via Zoom

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…

Collections Committee – via Zoom

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…

July 4th Oration – Planning Meeting via Zoom

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…

Board Meeting – via Zoom

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/ Because of the COVID-19 situation…

L’il Freedom Seekers Story Time Helps Parents Navigate Hard History

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…

July 4th Oration 2020 – The Struggle for Justice Continues – via Zoom

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…

Young Abolitionist Leadership Institute 2020

The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, United States

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…

The Myers Residence Reopens to the Public

The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, United States

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…

Capital District Humanist Society at The Myers Residence

The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, United States

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…

Young Abolitionist Leadership Institute Service Day – You are Invited to Participate

The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, United States

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…