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The Museum of African American History is dedicated to preserving, conserving and accurately interpreting the contributions of African Americans in New England from the colonial period through the 19th century.

 

 

 

Calendar of Events

Unless otherwise noted, Boston programs and events take place at
the Museum of African American History, 46 Joy Street on Beacon Hill.
RSVP to 617-725-0022 ext. 222 or rsvp@maah.org

Validated discount parking (for most evening, weekend and special events ONLY)
is available at the Cambridge Street Garage (under Holiday Inn Express $5.00)
Please bring your ticket into the event for validation.


MBTA:
Red and Green Lines to Park Street

 Happening Daily

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BOSTON CAMPUS, 10AM - 4PM (Closed Sundays)
Two National Historic Landmarks, Freedom Rising exhibit, Museum Store, Guided Tours$5: adults, $3: ages 13-17 & 62+, FREE: MAAH members & kids 12 & under
46 Joy Street on Beacon Hill

Walk in the footsteps of Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Maria Stewart and all the abolitionist leaders who helped bring an end to slavery in this country. See how historic restoration has returned the African Meeting House, the oldest black church in the country (1806; pictured left), to its 1855 appearance with elegantly curved pews and pulpit, period wainscoting and finishes, cast-iron posts and golden chandelier.  View exhibits in the Abiel Smith School (1835), the first structure built to educate black children in the United States.  Accessible for all.

 

Hourly tours led by Rangers of the National Park Service, Boston African American National Historic Site (BOAF), start on the hour from 11am – 3pm.

Museum store open daily, except Sundays: 617.720.2991.

Image: Robert Gould Shaw Monument

BLACK HERITAGE TRAIL®, BOSTON (Daily, except Sundays)
Free Guided Walking Tours led by National Park Service (BOAF) Rangers
Meet Rangers at Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Memorial;
Corner of Beacon and Park Streets (across from Mass. State House)


Explore the history of Boston’s 18th and 19th-century free African American community on the north slope of Beacon Hill. Ranger-led tours depart from
Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Monument
(across from Massachusetts State House; pictured left) and end at the Museum of African American History's African Meeting House. Self-guided tour maps available.

Call BOAF for seasonal tour schedules: 617.742.5415.

Public Events

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MAAH BOSTON . UPCOMING PROGRAMS

Image:  Freedom Rising, Museum of African American History, Lowell Lecture Series and more

 

 

Image: Dr. Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot seated

Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on

Respect: Witness and Justice

Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 6:00pm

46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill 

 

A Lowell Lecture Series Presentation

Free and open to the public | RSVP@maah.org

 

Respect is commonly seen as deference to status and hierarchy, as driven by duty and a desire to avoid punishment, shame, or embarrassment. Renowned Harvard sociologist and MacArthur Prize winner Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot will challenge the traditional concept and present a view that draws its contours from the African-American historic journey of liberation, and focuses on the ways that respect creates equality, empathy and connection in all kinds of relationships.  She will argue that respect is the single most powerful ingredient in building just and democratic communities and productive organizational cultures.  Dr. Lawrence-Lightfoot will challenge us to think deeply and act courageously as we advocate for human dignity and social justice, as we nourish our personal and professional relationships, and as we build inclusive and diverse communities where everyone has visibility and voice. 

 

Educator, researcher, author, and public intellectual, Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot has been on faculty at Harvard University since 1972.  Among her

many honors is the Emily Hargroves Fisher endowed chair, which upon her retirement becomes the Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot chair, making her the first African-American woman in Harvard's history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor.   She has written ten books, including Balm In Gilead: Journey of A Healer (1988), which won the 1988 Christopher Award, given for "literary merit and humanitarian achievement.”  In Respect: An Exploration (1999), Lawrence-Lightfoot reaches deep into human experience to find the essence of this powerful quality. 

 

 

Space is limited  |  RSVP@maah.org  | (617) 725-0022 x222

 

 

 

 

MAAH BOSTON . PAST EVENTS 2013

Image:  Freedom Rising - Harriet Tubman, Charlotte Forten, and Susie King Taylor

 

 

Image:  Civil war, Black young man, Union Drummer

Image:  Dr. Lois Brown

Dr. Lois Brown

Freedom Rising Exhibit Opening
Lecture, Exhibit and Reception

Sunday, March 10, 2013 

46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill 

 

MAAH welcomes descendants of abolitionists and of the first black regiments from the north in the Civil War, including the granddaughter of Henry A. Monroe, drummer 54th Massachusetts Regiment, to celebrate our new exhibit.

 

Dr. Lois Brown on

‘The mission she now has in view':

Harriet Tubman and Women of the Civil War

 

A Lowell Lecture Series Presentation

Free and open to the public | RSVP@maah.org

 

The Civil War was shaped by countless heroes and heroines, among them the legendary leader known to thousands as "General Tubman." Among these were stalwart, visionary, and courageous African American women who came from free and formerly enslaved families, from Northern communities and Southern homes.  In what ways does our knowledge of the war change when we consider the leadership, enterprise, and witness of Harriet Tubman, Charlotte Forten, and Susie King Taylor?  As we mark the centennial anniversary of Harriet Tubman's passing, there is much to be gained by studying the intrepid women who navigated real and symbolic battlefields and front lines of the Civil War.

This program includes a special tribute to General Harriet Tubman.

 

Dr. Lois Brown is Class of 1958 Distinguished Professor of African American Studies Program and Department of English at Wesleyan University.

Her research and scholarship focus on African American and New England literary history and culture. She is widely respected for her research, teaching and scholarship, including 19th century African American and American literature and culture, and abolitionist narratives. Dr. Brown's passion for African American history has led to exhibitions at MAAH and at the Boston Public Library. She has curated or co-curated more than five exhibitions, and is one of the curators of Freedom Rising.

 

 

 

 

Image:  Freedom Rising, Museum of African American History, Lowell Lecture Series and more

Touré on Movies: Lincoln, Django 

and the Portrayal of Blacks in Period Films

 

 

Image:  Touré

Saturday, February 23 at 5:00pm
MAAH Boston Campus:  46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill

A Lowell Lecture Series Presentation

Free and open to the public
Book signing and reception follow


 

A Lowell Lecture Series Presentation

Free and open to the public

 

Boston's own Touré now hosts The Cycle, weekdays on MSNBC. He is a columnist for Time.com, popular culture critic, and author of four books including the critically acclaimed Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?   His latest work, I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon, is scheduled to be released March 2013. Touré will share his insights into some of today's most talked about films; suggests viewing films in advance.  [Left: images from Lincoln by Steven Spielberg; Right: images from Django by Quentin Tarentino; Touré: courtesy of touré.com.]

Space is limited ~ rsvp@maah.org 

For more information ~ 617.725.0022, extension 222

Image:  Freedom Rising - Frederick Douglass, John Brown and Abraham Lincoln

 

Join the

Museum of African American History

National Park Service

Boston African American National Historic Site

 

for

 

 Dr. John Stauffer on Giants of Abolition:

Frederick Douglass, John Brown and Abraham Lincoln

Thursday, January 31 at 6pm
MAAH Boston Campus:  46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill

A Lowell Lecture Series Presentation

Free and open to the public
Book signing and reception follow
 

This first event with Dr. Stauffer launches the Freedom Rising Lowell Lecture Series and the Museum's yearlong commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, the first black soldiers from the north to serve in the Civil War.  Through a new exhibit, lectures, concerts, Teacher Summer Institutes, and children’s events, Freedom Rising in 2013 celebrates the roles of Boston’s black and white abolitionists in monumental historic events.

 

Dr. Stauffer is a leading authority on antislavery, social protest movements, and interracial friendship, and is a Harvard University professor of English and American Literature and African American Studies, and Chair of the History of American Civilization program at Harvard.  He is the author of several books and more than 45 articles, including The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (2002), which won four major awards.  His essays have appeared in such publications as Time Magazine, New York Post, 21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography, and The Harvard Review, and he has appeared on national radio and television shows. 

 

Two of Dr. Stauffer’s books are available for advance purchase online, including Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, and his new release The Tribunal: John Brown and the Road to Emancipation. The book signing and reception follow the lecture. 

 

Click here to purchase Dr. Stauffer’s books

And have them held for you at the Museum store.

 

Space is limited ~ rsvp@maah.org

 

For more information

617.725.0022, extension 222

Image:  MAAH and BOAF logos

 

Image:  Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra - Text:  A Day of Service and Celebration in Honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Image: Flyer, "A day of service and celebration in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - 2013"

presented by

 

Museum of African American History

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra

Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events

MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2013

1pm in Faneuil Hall

Free and open to the general public

 

Doors open at 11am for public viewing of
Presidential Inauguration

Reception follows the concert

Join us for music and spoken word tributes to Dr. King

 

 

featuring

Image:  Ernest G. Green, Little Rock Nine

 

Ernest G. Green, Keynote Speaker
Member of the Little Rock Nine, black students
first to integrate a public school following the 1954
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision

 

2013 Distinguished Leaders

Image:  Gilmore, White-Hammond, Gibson

L to R: Gilmore, White-Hammond and Gibson

Marvin Gilmore, Military Leader

One of the most highly decorated American veterans from WWII, first African American in New England

to be awarded the Legion of Honor from France, and successful developer of major industrial projects.

Rev. Dr. Gloria White-Hammond, Humanitarian Leader

Co-founder of Bethel AME Church, pediatrician, medical and human rights missionary with many

years of community service in Boston and human rights advocacy around the world.

Regie Gibson, Oratory Leader

Poet, songwriter, actor, author, educator, and National Poetry Slam Champion who has lectured 

and performed widely in the US, Cuba, and Europe.

 

Image:  Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra Members (Close Up)

 

 

BYSO Intensive Community Program

Performing classical music, spirituals and freedom songs conducted by Marta Zurad

 

As 2013 is the Sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation and of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, the first black soldiers from the north to serve in the Civil War, the Mayor's Office and BYSO join the Museum in commemorating the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's signing of the historic document and to the brave black regiments through this year's Martin Luther King Day celebration.

Boston's 11th annual tribute to Dr. King features music students from BYSO's Intensive Community Program.  The distinguished leaders will evoke the power and promise of the civil rights hero by reading from his Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Address delivered in New York City in 1962.  The event also will recognize the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech delivered in 1963 in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

   

Visit cityofboston.gov/arts for more information.

 

2012 Events

Image:  Interior of African Meeting House (Black and White) - 150th Anniversary, First Night Jubilee Concert

presented by the

Museum of African American History

and the

Handel and Haydn Society 

 

December 31, 2012 

Performances at 2pm and 3pm  

 46 Joy Street    Beacon Hill

Join us on New Year's Eve to celebrate the Sesquicentennial of President Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation with a concert by the Handel and Haydn Society Chorus and the story of Boston's role in this historic event presented by the Museum. This special First Night concert includes selections from H&H's performance on January 1, 1863 and abolitionist songs including the Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe.

 

150 years ago, black and white abolitionists gathered in Boston to wait and watch with anticipation for the official document that would free the majority of persons enslaved in this nation in the midst of a Civil War. This special program will celebrate this momentous occasion with music and spoken word at the African Meeting House (1806).

   

ADMISSION

Free to first 50 First Night button holders per performance    

& Museum members and children 12 years & under  

General admission: $5; youth 13 - 17 years and seniors 62+: $3   

  

Image: Buy Tickets Here

Please confirm your attendance as seating is limited: 

rsvp@maah.org or (617) 725-0022 x222

FIRST NIGHT BUTTONS

All-access buttons are available in the Museum store and online for $18 each.
Proceeds benefit First Night Boston and the Museum of African American History

Image:  MAAH Logo, Handel and Haydn Society Logo

Visit handelandhaydn.org for more details on the concert.

 

Image: MLK and Signs of Freedom

 

Image: African Meeting House Exterior - At Night

 

 

 

 

Celebrate the opening of our new exhibit
on the 206th birthday of the African Meeting House.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

MAAH Boston Campus
46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill

12noon to 6pm
Open house

5pm
Exhibit Talk with Executive Director
Beverly Morgan-Welch

Holiday Refreshments

 

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
and Signs of Freedom

Exhibit open now through February 2013

This exhibit celebrates the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. Rare photographs by Ernest Withers of Martin Luther King Jr., poignant scenes of the American Civil Rights movement, and powerful broadsides from the abolitionist movement commemorate campaigns for human liberty. <more>

CREDITS: Photo: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Ralph Abernathy (Montgomery, Alabama, 1956) ride on one of the first desegregated buses after the Montgomery Bus Boycott. ©Ernest C. Withers Family Trust, courtesy of Decaneas Archive, Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

Image: David Walker's: "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World"

 

Image:  Bookcover, Peter Hink's: "To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren"

 

 

David Walker Memorial Project

 

Join the Museum of African American History,

Community Change, Inc., and featured speakers, including

 

Historian Peter P. Hinks



Thursday, September 27, 2012

6:00 - 8:00pm

 

Museum of African American History

Boston Campus:  46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill

 

David Walker (1796/97-1830) wrote and distributed his Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, influencing William Lloyd Garrison and many other social activists and abolitionists. Historians now regard Walker’s Appeal as one of the most important social and political documents of the 19th century.  Walker spent his most influential years in Boston.

 

The David Walker Memorial Project is based at our beloved Horace Seldon’s Community Change, Inc., a hub of social activism and education in Boston since 1968.  The project goals include making David Walker’s contributions to ending slavery and life accomplishments better known through a memorial project and a new website.

 

Featured speakers will include historian Peter P. Hinks, author of a biography of Walker, To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren.

 

PLEASE RSVP

Cara Liasson or call

(617) 725-0022 x222

 

Bring ticket into event for validated parking discount

(under Holiday Inn Express on Cambridge Street: $5.00)

 

For more information please go to the
David Walker Memorial website

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BOSTON MUSEUM & EVENT ADMISSIONS

General and Event admission: $5.00;
youth 13 - 17 years and seniors 62+: $3.00; 

Members and all kids 12 years & under: free.

 

BOSTON MUSEUM HOURS

Monday through Saturday, 10am-4pm

 

 

Image:  More Than Freedom - Bookcover

Image:  Author Stephen Kantrowitz

Author

Stephen Kantrowitz

 

 

Image: Museum of African American History Logo
MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

and

Image:  National Park Service Logo
BOSTON AFRICAN AMERICAN NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
National Park Service

invite you to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the
“preliminary” Emancipation Proclamation with

Stephen Kantrowitz
Author of More than Freedom:
Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic,

1829 - 1889

Thursday, September 20 at 6pm

MAAH Boston Campus
46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill


On September 22, 1862, President Lincoln issued the “preliminary” Emancipation Proclamation in the midst of the Civil War, declaring that if the Confederate armies did not end the fighting and rejoin the Union by January 1, 1863, all those enslaved in the rebellious states would be free.

Join us in the African Meeting House as Stephen Kantrowitz discusses his new book, More than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889, which chronicles the epic struggle to abolish slavery in America through the lives of black and white activists in and around Boston.

Stephen Kantrowitz, a native of Brookline, Massachusetts, is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His first book, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy, was a New York Times Notable Book that won several scholarly awards.

 

Book signing and reception followed the program.

 

 

Image: L'Merchie Frazier

L'Merchie Frazier

Image: Kathryn Grover

Kathryn Grover

 

Hidden on Beacon Hill:
Boston's 19th Century Black History

 

Wednesday, May 23, 2012
5:30pm Reception * 6:00pm Program
MAAH BOSTON CAMPUS
46 Joy Street * Beacon Hill


In the 19th century, Boston's free African American community
residing on Beacon Hill led the nation in the movement to end slavery and to
achieve equal rights. With the African Meeting House as their gathering place,
these remarkable patriots established businesses, founded organizations,
and created schools. Their houses of worship, homes, schools, and
Underground Railroad sites represent a moving and
fascinating slice of American history.

 

FEATURING

L'Merchie Frazier
Education Director, Museum of African American History

Kathryn Grover
Author, Fugitive Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in
New Bedford, Massachusetts; Co-author, Historic Resource Study
of the Boston African American Historic Site

Plus presentations by
Beacon Hill residents and Susanne Besser, Mary and John Gier, Vincent Licenziato, Dana Smith, Michael Terranova, Bernadette Williams, and Victor Zabek.

Co-sponsored by the Beacon Hill Civic Assocation
and The Beacon Hill Scholars.

Experience historic Beacon Hill and learn about the free black community that thrived on the north slope in the 1800s.

Visit www.maah.org for an audio tour of the Black Heritage Trail®,
or to take a free walking tour with National Park Service Rangers, Boston African American National Historic Site.

Will "Cannonball" Jackiman, photo courtesy of the Cannonball Foundation

Photo: Courtesy of the Cannonball Foundation

Will "Cannonball" Jackman

"Best Ballplayer
You Have Never Heard Of."

Article:

"Preserving Fabric History"

By

Joel Brown
Boston Globe Correspondent

Image:  Catch the Color of Baseball in Boston, a new exhibit at the Museum of African American History in Boston, MA - Spring thru Fall 2012

The History of Black Teams, the Players
and a Sporting Community


Image:  West Newton Colored Giants Team Photo 1936, courtesy of Historic Newton

West Newton Colored Giants 1936 Photo: Courtesy of Historic Newton


Saturday, May 19, 2012
12:30 - 4:00 pm

MAAH BOSTON CAMPUS
46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill

ENJOY A DAY FULL OF FUN ACTIVITY AND LEARNING


Catch our new exhibit

The Color of Baseball in Boston:
The History of Black Teams, the Players
and a Sporting Community



BASEBALL MEMORIES AND MEMORABILIA
Show your favorite baseball keepsakes and tell memorable stories.

CHILDREN'S BASEBALL SCAVENGER HUNT
Young visitors hunt for clues in the exhibit to win a prize.

DOCUMENTARY FILM:
"ONLY THE BALL WAS WHITE"

Paul Winfield narrates documentary on
forgotten Athletes of Baseball's Negro League.


Throughout the 1900's, before Jackie Robinson broke baseball'scolor barrier in 1946, black baseball talent blossomed in the Negro Leagues. Baseball buffs  still sing the praises of Josh Gibson, counted on to  hit 70 homeruns in a season, and Satchel Paige,  who pitched over 100 no-hitters in his career, and other top flight players from the Negro Leagues.

A 30-minute film shown through the day.

GALLERY TALKS


12:30PM
 

Will "Cannonball" Jackman:
"The Best Ballplayer You Have Never Heard of"

Mike Ginns, Founder and Director,
The Cannonball Foundation

 

1:30PM

 

Black Baseball in Boston before 1900


Bijan C. Bayne, sports journalist, author of
Sky Kings: Black Pioneers of Professional Basketball, and contributing writer for
"The Color of Baseball in Boston."

 

2:30PM

 

The Boston Tigers:
Dubbed the "Champion Colored Nine of New England"

Dr. Robert L. Cvornyek, Chair of the History Department
at Rhode Island College, author of Baseball in Newark;
editor of Negro Baseball... Before Integration by Effa Manley
and Leon Herbert Hardwick, and principal scholar for
"The Color of Baseball in Boston."

 


GUIDED TOURS OF THE AFRICAN MEETING HOUSE
11:00am - 3:00pm - Hourly

A Gathering Place for Freedom
Walk in the footsteps of abolitionist giants in the most important
African American National Historic Landmark in the United States, recently reopened after $9.5 million historic restoration. National Park Service Rangers, Boston African American National Historic Site, lead hourly tours year round.


Image:  Catch the Color of Baseball in Boston, a new exhibit at the Museum of African American History in Boston, MA - Spring thru Fall 2012

A new exhibition that sheds light on early American sports history

and commemorates the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park.

Don't miss this unique collection of photographs and equipment of the day, including the uniform of Will "Cannonball" Jackman, referred to as the
"Best Ballplayer You Have Never Heard Of."  and learn about the
West Newton Colored Tigers (1936).


Admissions / Directions
Museum entrance fees apply.

Accessible for all.

 

Image:  2012 Living Legends Awards, Thursday, May 3, 2012, Four Seasons Hotel


2012 Living Legends Event Page

The Museum of African American History

is proud to salute extraordinary trailblazers whose remarkable accomplishments uphold the legacy of those 18th and 19th century black patriots whose stalwart commitment to freedom

and justice helped build our American democracy.


THE 2012 LIVING LEGENDS

Diane B. Patrick

Attorney & First Lady of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts


Dr. S. Allen Counter

Director of the Harvard Foundation,
Renowned Neurologist and Explorer
 

 

Jim Rice 

Red Sox Hall of Famer
and Former Major League Baseball Player 

 

THURSDAY * MAY 3 * 2012 

 
Four Seasons Hotel * Boston 
 
5:30pm 
Leadership Sponsor Reception
6:00pm Reception and Living Legends Awards

Dinner and dessert celebration * Live music
Business or festive attire


HONORARY CO-CHAIRS 


The Honorable John F. Kerry
and Teresa Heinz Kerry


The Honorable Scott Brown
and Gail Huff 


The Honorable Deval L. Patrick 

The Honorable Thomas M. Menino
and Angela Menino



CO-CHAIRS  


Jackie and Windsor Glenn, EMC

 

Norman and Tina Lang, JP Morgan

  
 
PLEASE HELP US COMMEMORATE A
LEGACY OF CHAMPIONS

 Click here to attend or support
 
Call 617.725.0022, ext. 223

Click here for email 

Image: Photographer Don West

Don West

THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

invites you to


Celebrate American History in Boston
and Nantucket

 

MAAH BOSTON

“Portraits of Purpose” Family Workshop

Meet noted photographer Don West and find out how he created these life-sized portraits of community leaders from Boston and beyond. Be sure to catch the critically acclaimed Portraits of Purpose exhibit before it closes.

Join L'Merchie Frazier, MAAH's Director of Education
and renowned visual and performance artist, for an interactive workshop. Find out what kind of leader you are/will be, and create your own portrait.

Saturday  March 31 2012

3:30PM

In the newly restored African Meeting House


MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY 

46 JOY STREET  BEACON HILL

Admission fees apply, unless otherwise noted.

Contact MAAH Boston

Email • rsvp@maah.org
Phone • 617.725.0022, x222

 

Image: Millenium Conversation, Save the Date, Tuesday, March 27, 2012

 

THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

invites you to


'Generation Next for a "Glocal" World'
A Candid Conversation with a
New Generation of Boston Leaders


TUESDAY  MARCH 27 2012

6:00pm

at the

Historic African Meeting House
MAAH Boston * 46 Joy Street

Leaders with diverse professional expertise and models for success help shape the conversation about the next generation of leaders. Join us in the historic African Meeting House as we investigate how local empowerment impacts Boston's global footprint.

Participants include:

 

Image: Akiba Abaka

AKIBA ABAKA


Producing artistic director of the Up

You Mighty Race theater company

tells stories about the black experience in an unconventional way. Led the roving theater troupe for seven years, before settlling in as the first black company to reside at the Boston Center for the Arts.

   
Image: George "Chip" Greenidge, Photo Credit - Don West

GEORGE "CHIP" GREENIDGE


Convened young black professionals

to explore ways to make Boston more welcoming to people of color. As chair of Boston Connects, provides grants and loans to non-profits and businesses in economically distressed neighborhoods, enabling people to become financially self-sufficient.

   
Image: JOSÉ MASSÓ, Photo Credit - Don West

JOSÉ MASSÓ, moderator


Diverse career includes political liaison

on the presidential campaign trail, investigative TV journalist, innovative high school teacher, high-powered sports agent and, over the last 36 years, bilingual announcer and producer of "¡Con Salsa!" airing on WBUR 90.9 FM.

   
Image: TULAINE MONTGOMERY, Photo Credit - Don West

TULAINE MONTGOMERY


Helped low-income youth enter college, then the 21st century workforce; co-founded Citizen Schools, a nationally recognized after-school program; and facilitated the State of Black Boston Report, analyzing social and economic issues affecting Boston's black population.


Entrance fees apply / Directions Please confirm your participation: email or phone (617) 725-0022 x222

Photo Credits -

GREENIDGE, MASSÓ & MONTGOMERY
Courtesy of Don West, "Portraits of Purpose"

ABAKA

Courtesy of Akiba Abaka & Up You Mighty Race theater company

 

Contact MAAH Boston

Email • rsvp@maah.org
Phone • 617.725.0022, x222

 

Image: Mark Auslander, Author of The Accidental Slaveowner.

Mark Auslander

'The Accidental Slaveowner'


Image: Quilt from Accidental Slaveowner


Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family

by Mark Auslander

Historic African Meeting House

Thursday * March 22, 2012 * Program 6pm
Booksigning and Reception with Author Follows Program

MAAH Boston * 46 Joy Street * Beacon Hill

Mark Auslander's "The Accidental Slaveowner" explores how the story of one specific enslaved woman, known as Miss Kitty, has been told and retold across lines of race and difference in a single Georgia town over 160 years. The author explores interracial struggles for dialogue and community reconciliation in the wake
of this difficult, painful history.


Auslander is Associate Professor of Anthropology & Museum Studies and director of the Museum of Culture and Environment in
Central Washington University in Ellensburg, WA.  He is a sociocultural anthropologist with strong interests in political and symbolic processes in Africa and the African Diaspora.

Admissions / Directions: Museum entrance fees apply

RSVP: Please confirm your participation by email

or phone (617) 725-0022 x222.

 

Image:  Bookcover, To Free a Family, the Journey of Mary Walker

THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

invites you to


Celebrate American History in Boston
and Nantucket

 

MAAH BOSTON

Professor Sydney Nathans

Professor Nathans, author, historian, and one-time fellow
of the DuBois Institute at Harvard University, will share
insights about his new book. Beverly Morgan-Welch, executive director of the Museum of African American
History, will introduce the guest speaker and offer some context for the book about Mary Walker and her
experience in Cambridge in the 1850s.

Co-sponsored by:

the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Museum of
African American History, and the DuBois Institute.

 

Thursday  February 23 2012

1:00PM

In the newly restored African Meeting House


CAMBRIDGE CENTER for ADULT EDUCATION

42 BRATTLE STREET  CAMBRIDGE

 

Contact MAAH Boston

Email • rsvp@maah.org
Phone • 617.725.0022, x222

Image: Honorable Reverand Michael E. Haynes

Honorable Rev. Michael E. Haynes

Photo Portrait by: Don West

THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

invites you to



Celebrate American History in Boston
and Nantucket

 

MAAH BOSTON

“A Profile In Color”

A Candid Conversation with the
Honorable Reverend Michael E. Haynes

Wednesday  February 8 2012

Newtorking Reception: 6:00PM

Program: 7:00PM

In the newly restored African Meeting House


MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY 

46 JOY STREET  BEACON HILL

 

Reverend Haynes will provide insight into his life growing up in Boston, 40-year ministry at the historic Twelfth Baptist Church, friendship with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and public service as a state representative. Born of immigrant parents and a former sportswriter, Rev. Haynes joined Twelfth Baptist Church’s ministerial staff in 1951, along with Dr. King, while both were Divinity students in Boston. The esteemed pastor is featured in Don West’s Portraits of Purpose: A Tribute to Leadership Boston, 1980 – 2012, on display at the Museum through March 2012. Admission fees apply.

 

Admission fees apply, unless otherwise noted.

Contact MAAH Boston

Email • rsvp@maah.org
Phone • 617.725.0022, x222

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Image:  Book cover, "Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?" What it means to be Black now, by Touré, Forward by Michael Eric Dyson

Image: Author Touré

Author Touré

 

THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

invites you to a

Book Party

WHO'S AFRAID OF POST-BLACKNESS?

What it Means to be Black Now  

 

Touré

 

Foreword by Michael Eric Dyson

 

THURSDAY  JANUARY 26  6:00PM

View video of entire event here.


MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY 

46 JOY STREET  BEACON HILL

 

Meet the author in the newly restored  

African Meeting House

 RECEPTION FOLLOWS IN ABIEL SMITH SCHOOL
 

Over the past two decades, Touré has become a force in journalism, TV, pop culture criticism, and the literary world.  And now, he's tackling his toughest subject yet.  His new book is a fascinating, entertaining, thought-provoking, sobering, angering, and at times laugh-out-loud examination of what it means to be Black in America today.  He draws on interviews with over 100 prominent African-Americans from art to politics to journalism to academia - with words from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to Soledad O'Brien - as well as his own thoughts and experiences.

"...(Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?) is one of the most
acutely observed accounts of what it is like to be young,
black and middle-class in contemporary America.
Touré inventively draws on a range of evidence - auto¬
biography, music, art, interviews, comedy and popular
social analysis - for a performance carried through with
unsparing honesty..."


- New York Times Book Review, September 2011


BOOKS AVAILABLE AT MUSEUM STORE

Space is limited Entrance fees apply
RSVP to rsvp@maah.org or call (617) 725-0022 x222

 

UPCOMING BOSTON EVENTS

February Black History Month

April Color of Baseball in Boston Exhibit Opening

 

UPCOMING NANTUCKET EVENTS

January 27, 7pm Theatre Workshop and Nantucket Comedy Festival (Nantucket Atheneum)
February 12 - 19
Nantucket's 6th Annual One Book, One Island

featuring Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon
(Nantucket African Meeting House and other venues)

 

 

Dr. Alvin Poussaint

Steve Grossman

 

Dr. Lee Pelton

Tulaine Marshall

Boston Celebrates King

MONDAY  JANUARY 16  1:00PM
FANEUIL HALL - BOSTON

The Museum of African American History joins
Mayor Thomas M. Menino and
the Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism & Special Events
and Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO)

to present


A free tribute concert in honor of
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


Featuring

Dr. Alvin Poussaint
Harvard Medical School's dedicated professor and
internationally renowned author delivers the keynote address


Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras’
Intensive Community Program

Marta Zurad conducts moving selection of classical music, spirituals and freedom songs.

Image: Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra in concert


Spoken tributes by distinguished roster of leaders
featuring some of Dr. King's most memorable writings and speeches:

Steve Grossman • Treasurer of Massachusetts
Dr. Lee Pelton • President of Emerson College
Tulaine Marshall • a founding staff member of Citizen Schools.

<More on the event & videos from past MLK events>

 

William Lloyd Garrison

Horace Seldon

Civil Rights Activist &
Retired Ranger

180th Anniversary of the
New England Anti-Slavery Society
January 1832 - January 2012

(This featured event is on-going)

 

Celebrate the founding of the New England Anti-Slavery Society with a tour of the National Historic Landmark where it all began.

180 years ago January, 1832, William Lloyd Garrison formed this seminal abolitionist group in the Infant School Room at the Museum of African American History's African Meeting House, now beautifully restored and open to the public once again on Boston's Beacon Hill. <more>

On January 6th, 1832, Garrison stated, "We have met tonight in this obscure Schoolhouse; our numbers are few and our influence limited; but mark my prediction, Faneuil Hall shall ere long echo with the principles we have set forth. We shall shake the nation by their mighty power."

Take a guided tour of the first anti-slavery church in the United States with a National Park Service Ranger telling stories of Garrison, Fredrick Douglass, Mariah Stewart, and all the men, women, and children who faced great opposition and stood as a united force for freedom. Walk in the footsteps of these abolitionist giants and see how the pristine restoration has returned the African Meeting House, considered the Black Faneuil Hall, to its 1855 appearance and to an ideal venue for civil discussion about social and economic issues of the day, intimate theater, concerts, weddings, and other special events .

Help us pay tribute to leaders — then and now — who dedicated themselves to shaking the nation and creating a better world. Browse Don West's critically acclaimed "Portraits of Purpose" exhibit, featuring current innovators and pioneers who follow Garrison's leadership example.

MAAH HOURS:
Open daily, except Sundays, 10am - 4pm
Tours hourly, from 11am to 3pm
46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill, Boston

MAAH ENTRANCE FEES APPLY:
General admission: $5
Members & children 12 years and under: Free
Youth 13-17 & seniors 62 and over: $3

Image: Visit the African Meeting House, Boston, MA - Pulpit, pews and staircase

Museum of African American History • 46 Joy Street • Beacon Hill • Boston
Boston historic sites are accessible for all.

Join the Museum
Become a new member, renew your membership, or make a donation.

Visit the African Meeting House Celebration page for information about celebration events and tours.

Click here to learn more about the African Meeting House Restoration.

2011 Events

Daniel Rasmussen

THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

 

Presents

AMERICAN UPRISING:
The Untold Story of America’s
Largest Slave Revolt

New York Times Best Seller

Wednesday, November 9, 2011,
6:00 pm
Reception at 5:30 pm
46 Joy Street, Boston

With Author
Daniel Rasmussen

A native of Washington, DC and graduate of Harvard College, Rasmussen has always been passionate about investigative journalism. His book is based upon his college thesis that won Harvard’s top undergraduate academic honor.

Admission: $5 adults; $3 students and seniors
rsvp@maah.org

Books available at Museum Store

Co-sponsored by
Boston African American National Historic Site and the
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice

Discounted parking at
Cambridge Street Garage under Holiday Inn

 

Image: Black Gotham book cover.

Dr. Carla L. Peterson

October 12, 2011

BLACK GOTHAM with Dr. Carla L. Peterson

Abiel Smith School
46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill, Boston
5:30pm Reception
6:00pm Program

Dr. Carla L. Peterson, professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park will read from and sign her book, Black Gotham. Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is Peterson's riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors. As she shares their stories and those of their friends, neighbors, and business associates, she illuminates the greater history of African-American elites in New York City. Black Gotham won Honorable Mention in the 2011 New York Book Festival Biography/Autobiography Category. Yale University Press.

Admission: $5 adults; $3 students and seniors

rsvp@maah.org

Books available at Museum Store

 

 

Co-sponsored by Boston African American National Historic Site and

 Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice

Smithsonian - Museum Day, Free Admission to the Museum of African American History, Click on image for tickets

September 24, 2011

SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE MUSEUM DAY

10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Abiel Smith School
46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill, Boston

The Museum of African American History is participating in the Annual Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day on Saturday, September 24, 2011 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. FREE ADMISSION for one person plus a guest. Go to http://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/ to download your ticket for free admission to the Museum on September 24, 2011 and receive a 10% discount in our Museum Store.

Image: PIP Open House, September 17, Museum of African American History, Boston, MA  46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill, Boston

September 17, 2011

PARTNERS IN PRESERVATION
OPEN HOUSE DAY

10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Abiel Smith School
46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill, Boston

The Museum of African American History is happy to be participating in the First Annual Partners in Preservation Open House Day along with 13 other of Greater Boston’s incredible historic sites. Visit the Abiel Smith School at 46 Joy Street, Boston to experience our exhibition, Treasures from the Collections, view our video, Building on a Firm Foundation, and walk the Black Heritage Trail®.

A special guided Open House Black Heritage Trail® tour will leave from the Smith School at 12 noon. Another tour at 2:00 pm will begin at the Shaw Memorial across from the State House on Beacon Street.

Register for either tour at 617-742-5415.

FREE TOTE BAGS FOR THE FIRST 100 VISITORS

Thanks to all of you who voted for us during the competition in 2009, the Museum of African American History was a proud recipient of a $100,000 grant from Partners in Preservation. Partners in Preservation is program of American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation formed to increase the public’s awareness of the importance of historic preservation in the United States and to preserve America’s historic and cultural places.

Plan to visit some of the other Partners in Preservation sites hosting Open Houses on September 17.

BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE SITES
• José Mateo Ballet Theatre, Cambridge
• Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge
• Old North Church, Boston
• Paul Revere House, Boston
• Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture, Boston

SUBURBAN SITES
• Edgell Memorial Library, Framingham
• Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, Concord
• Lowell’s Boat Shop, Amesbury
• Old Ship Meeting House, Hingham
• Paragon Carousel, Hull
• Salem Old Town Hall, Salem
• Schooner Adventure, Gloucester
• United First Parish Church, “Church of the Presidents,” Quincy

Thursday, September 15, 2011

 

Celebrating Challenges and Champions:
From Houston to Marshall to the 21st Century


Registration and lunch: Noon
Program: 1:30 - 5:30 pm
Book signing and reception: 5:30 - 6:30 pm

Ropes Gray Room (2nd Floor)
Pound Hall, Harvard Law School
1563 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." These words of Martin Luther King, Jr., himself borrowing from 19th century abolitionist Theodore Parker, continue to resonate with experience. During our Celebration of Champions and Challenges, we will explore this arc as it passed from Charles Hamilton Houston to Thurgood Marshall in the 20th century and continues to bend toward justice today. We will hear personally from those with direct knowledge and experience of the champions and their challenges and others who can guide us going forward.

Registration is Free - Click here

Image: Bookcover, Governor Deval Patrick, "A Reason to Believe"
MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

 

PRESENTS

An Interview and Book Signing with
Governor Deval Patrick

View Video

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 6:00pm
(doors open at 5:00 pm for book sales)
C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University
55 Temple Street, Boston, MA 02114

Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 3:00pm
(doors open at 2:00 pm for book sales)
Trinity Worship Center
United Methodist Church of Martha's Vineyard
40 Trinity Park
Oak Bluffs, MA 02557

PRE-PURCHASE THE BOOK online FOR MEMBERSHIP DISCOUNT AND PRIORITY SEATING.

Reserve your book online Today!

Books will be available for pick up one hour prior to program.
Receipt must be presented to receive book.
Books will not be mailed.

Books also available for purchase at
The MAAH Museum Store
46 Joy Street, Boston
10 am – 4 pm Monday-Saturday

Please RSVP at rsvp@maah.org
or call (617) 725-0022, ext. 222


On July 20th, parking will be available for $5 at the
Charles River Plaza parking garage under the
Holiday Inn on Cambridge Street


Image: Boston African American National Historic Site, Indenpendence Week Tours

The Boston African American National Historic Site Independence Week Tours

Saturday, July 2 , 2011 thru
Saturday, July 9, 2011

Full Schedule

Image: Black Walden book cover

Black Walden Bookcover

Image: Elise Lemire

Dr. Elise Lemire

The
Museum of African American History

presents

A reading and book signing event for Dr. Elise Lemire, the Doris and Carl Kempner Distinguished Professor of Literature at Purchase College, SUNY, and her book Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts (2009).

Thursday, June 30th, 2011
Abiel Smith School
46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill, Boston
5:30pm Reception
6:00pm Program


Books will be available for purchase at the Museum Store

"Today Walden Woods is preserved as a place for visitors to commune with nature. Lemire, who grew up two miles from Walden Pond, reminds us that this was a black space before it was an internationally known green space. Black Walden preserves the legacy of the people who strove against all odds to overcome slavery and segregation."
University of Pennsylvania Press



Please RSVP to
(617) 725-0022 x222 or RSVP@maah.org.

Parking will be available for $5 at the Charles River Plaza parking garage
under the Holiday Inn on Cambridge Street.

 

12 noon, June 30, 2011

 

Click on image to right for more information

Rangers
Bruce Barnes & Matt Hampsey

The
Museum of African American History

and the

Boston African American
National Historic Site

present

Songs of Freedom:
Music of the Abolitionist Movement


Join us in welcoming New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park Rangers Bruce Barnes and Matt Hampsey as they entertain and educate us with popular songs of the abolitionist movement!

Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 6:00 PM
(Reception starts at 5:30 PM)
Museum of African American History's
Abiel Smith School
46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill


Parking will be available for $5 at
the Charles River Plaza parking garage
under the Holiday Inn on Cambridge Street.

 

Please note that there will be an
admission charge at the door for non-members:
ADMISSIONS: Museum Admission $5.00 |
Seniors (62+) $3.00 | Museum Members FREE

For more information,
please visit www.nps.gov/boaf
Follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/BAANHS or
Twitter at http://twitter.com/BOAFNPS

You can also call us at (617)742-5415.

 

Dr. John D. Warner

The Annual Meeting
of the
Museum of African American History


Wednesday, April 27, 2011
5:30pm Reception & 6:00pm Meeting
46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill


Guest Speaker: Dr. John D. Warner

 

Crossed Sabres: A History of the Fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry, an African American Regiment in the Civil War

The Fifth Volunteer Cavalry was the only African American cavalry regiment raised in the northern states during the Civil War. This black cavalry was officered by some of the most prominent sons of the first families of Massachusetts. After nearly a hundred and fifty years of silence, Dr. Warner brings to light the story of their recruitment, training and combat, as well as the alliance between the black enlisted men and white officers.

This program is presented in partnership with
Boston African American National Historic Site,
National Park Service

Admission is free!

Parking will be available for $5 at the Charles River Plaza parking garage, under the Holiday Inn on Cambridge Street. Please bring ticket for validation.

Please RSVP for this event at RSVP@maah.org
or (617) 725-0022, x222

Harriet Tubman

Lois Horton

Historian & Author

Thursday, March 31 at 6 p.m.

Boston African American National Historic Site

and the Museum of African American History

present

 

Harriet Tubman

Museum of African American History’s
Abiel Smith School
46 Joy Street
Boston, MA

Join us as historian and author Lois Horton talks about her upcoming book on the legendary Underground Railroad leader, Harriet Tubman.

This is the third program in our Civil War Lecture series scheduled for Winter/Spring 2011.


Entrance fees apply.
Museum Members - Free
Adults - $5
13-17 years old and 62 years and over - $3

For more information, please visit www.nps.gov/boaf Follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/BAANHS or
Twitter at http://twitter.com/BOAFNPS

You can also call us at (617)742-5415.

Free and Open to the Public

Friends of Dudley Branch Library

65 Warren Street, Roxbury, MA 02119

 

 

Black Dolls on Parade

 

By

 

THE BLACK GOLD DOLL CLUB OF

NEW ENGLAND

 

Saturday, April 16, 2011

1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Meet members of the Black Gold Doll Club and their dolls
Bring your dolls for a show and tell beginning at 2:00 p.m.

Light refreshments will be served

Edmund Barry Gaither

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Reception at 5:30 pm

Program at 6:00 pm

The Museum of African American History

Presents  

Allan Crite, A Boston Treasure

with

Edmund Barry Gaither

If you missed the program or want to experience it again, view the video - click here.

Museum of African American History
  46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill, Boston

Edmund Barry Gaither is the founding Director and Curator of the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists (NCAAA), an organization that he developed from a concept to an institution with collections exceeding three thousand objects and a thirty-two year history of exhibitions celebrating the visual arts heritage of black people worldwide. Gaither is also Special Consultant at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston where he has served as curator for eight exhibitions including a ground breaking show in l970, Afro-American Artists: New York and Boston.

Admission: Museum Members - Free, Adults - $5. 13-17 years old, and 62 years and over - $3.

RSVP: 617.725.0022 ext. 222 or rsvp@maah.org

Frederick Douglass

Thursday, February 17th at 6 p.m.

Boston African American National Historic Site

and the Museum of African American History

present

 

The Remarkable Life of

Frederick Douglass

Museum of African American History’s
Abiel Smith School
46 Joy Street
Boston, MA

Join us as local author Stephen Kendrick discusses the remarkable life of Frederick Douglass, one of the most important abolitionist and civil rights activists in our nation’s history. Reverend Kendrick will also speak about the origins of Black History Month as part of his presentation. He is the co-author of Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader & a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery & Save the Union and Sarah's Long Walk: How the Free Blacks of Boston and their Struggle for Equality Changed America.

This is the third program in our Civil War Lecture series scheduled for Winter/Spring 2011.


Entrance fees apply.
Museum Members - Free
Adults - $5
13-17 years old and 62 years and over - $3

For more information, please visit www.nps.gov/boaf Follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/BAANHS or
Twitter at http://twitter.com/BOAFNPS

You can also call us at (617)742-5415.

Martin Luther King, Jr. with Coretta Scott King, Yolanda Denise King

1956
Photographer: Dan Weiner (1919-1959)

Watch the 2010
MLK Celebration on-line

Visit the 2011
MLK Celebration Page

A Day of Celebration Honoring
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Monday, January 17, 2011
1:00 pm
Faneuil Hall, Boston

Presented by

The Museum of African American History,
The Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra,
and
The City of Boston Mayor's Office of Arts,
Tourism, and Special Events

 

Featuring

A Tribute Concert by the
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra's

Intensive Community Program

Honored Guest Speaker

Nikki Giovanni

And Readings From the Speeches

and Writings of Dr. King by:

Phillip Clay

Chancellor at MIT

Judge Roderick Ireland

Chief Justice 
of the Massachusetts Supreme Court

Rena Clark

Partner, GenNx360

Charles Sumner (1811 - 1874)

The Museum of African American History

and the

Boston African American National Historic Site

present

The Meaning and Legacy of Charles Sumner

January 20, 2011 at 6 p.m.

Museum of African American History's

Abiel Smith School
46 Joy Street
Beacon Hill, Boston, MA

From his humble roots on Beacon Hill, to his pioneering civil rights work as United States Senator, Charles Sumner helped define the era of the American Civil War. Almost killed on the floor of the Senate for his uncompromising views, Sumner helped to bring about the downfall of slavery and forge a new birth of American freedom. Join us as we celebrate the 200 th anniversary of Sumner's birth with a program by Harvard Professor John Stauffer who will be discussing his upcoming biography of this influential statesman from Massachusetts.

Admission: Museum Members - Free, Adults - $5. 13-17 years old, and 62 years and over - $3.

RSVP: 617.725.0022 ext. 222 or rsvp@maah.org

 

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