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5 Facts about the Religious Lives of African Americans
- 29th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers Fought More than One War
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Aboard the Underground Railroad: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
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African American Baptists
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African American History Sites and Resources in New England
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African American National Historic Landmarks by State
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African American Odyssey
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African American Resources for Connecticut
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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public Library Digital Collections)
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African Methodist Episcopal Church
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Amistad Center for Art & Culture
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Amistad Digital Resource
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Anti-Black Punitive Traditions In Early American Policing
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Association for the Study of African American Life and History
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Black Church
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Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School
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Black Church Studies at Yale Divinity School
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The Black Experience in Windsor, Connecticut, 1790-1950
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Black Feminist In Public: Jessica Marie Johnson on the Importance of Slavery Studies and Knowing Black Sexual Histories
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Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: Challenges and Triumphs in the Pursuit of Equality
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Black Heritage Travel: Northeastern United States: Connecticut
- Black History
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Black History: Southern Poverty Law Center
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Black History Month 2021: Honoring Black Leaders and Trailblazers from our Greater Hartford Community and Around Connecticut
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Black History Resources from Connecticut History,org
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Black History Teaching Resources from the Smithsonian Institute
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Black Leaders and Trailblazers From Our Greater Hartford Community and Around Connecticut
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Black Male Archives
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The Black Metropolis
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938
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Bridgeport Public Library. Bridgeport History Center. African American Heritage
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By the Numbers: Juneteenth
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Capital Community College. Hartford Heritage Project
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Capital Community College Gets NEH Grant For Black History Focusing On Historic Downtown Church
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Celebrating African American Military Milestones
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Celebrating Black History in Connecticut
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Center for Black Church Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary
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Chronicling the Black Experience Librarians and archivists collect and tell their own stories
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Connecticut Black History Icons and Moments
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Connecticut Explored. African American History in Connecticut
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Connecticut Freedom Trail
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Connecticut Freedom Trail Brochure
- Connecticut Freedom Trail Quilts
Click on an image of a quilt for additional information.
- Connecticut’s Black Civil War Regiment
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Connecticut’s Black Governors
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Digital Black History
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A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University
- A Durable Memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington: African American Daguerreotypist
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The Effects of “Redlining” on the Hartford Metropolitan Region
- Emerging from the Shadows, 1775-1819: The Black Governors
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Faith Congregational Church (1819-)
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Famous American Trials: Amistad Trials 1839-1840
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From the State Historian: Connecticut’s Slow Steps Toward Emancipation
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Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
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Great Migration
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Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
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Hartford's Black History Connects to College Experience
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Hartford, Connecticut Riot (1969)
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Hartford Changemakers Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Leaders in Hartford History
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Hartford Race Riots
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Hartford Studies Project. Trinity College
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Hartford’s Great Migration through Charles S. Johnson’s Eyes
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Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery
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History Makers: The Nation's Largest African American Video Oral History Collection
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History of Black Catholics in America
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History of the HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
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Honor Black History Month Through Black Sports Firsts
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How Real Estate Practices Influenced the Hartford Region’s Demographic Makeup
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I Visited A Former Plantation To Understand Why People Get Married There. All I Saw Was Pain.
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Library of Congress. Slaves and the Courts, 1740 to 1860
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Mapping the Great Migration (African American)
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
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MIT Black History Project - Curating the MIT Black Experience
- Moody Family History (My Family History)
The family escaped to Canada on the Underground Railroad.
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Moorland Spingarn Research Center @ Howard University
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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National Archives: African American History
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National Black History Month Presidential Proclamation
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Negro Motorist Green Book
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New London Connecticut: Custom House Maritime Museum
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No Day at the Beach
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Pew Research Center. Black Muslims Account for a All U.S. Muslims, and About Half are Converts to Islam
- Primary Documents in American History. 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
This amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States.
- Primary Documents in American History. 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
This amendment granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
- Primary Documents in American History. 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
- Primary Documents in American History. 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
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The Primus Papers: An Introduction to Hartford's Nineteenth Century Black Community
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Prudence Crandall Museum
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Racial Change in the Hartford Region, 1900 – 2010: An Animated Time-Slider Map
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Racism Kept Connecticut’s Beaches White Up Through the 1970s
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Research Guide to African-American Genealogical Resources
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Resources for Studying African-American Heritage at the CT State Library
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Resources for Teaching Black History Month
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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The Second Great Migration: A Historical Overview
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Site Lines: Connecticut's Freedom Trail
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Slave Voyages
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State of Connecticut: An Act Concerning the Inclusion of Black and Latino Studies in the Public School Curriculum. Public Act 19-12
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Statutes of the United States Concerning Slavery
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Today's Students of Black History Look Back at Hartford Church
- Today in History: November 23, 2021. November 23: Connecticut’s First African-American Civil War Regiment
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Tracings Boston's Black History: Stories of Courage That Changed America
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Uncovering Their History African, African-American and Native-American Burials in Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground, 1640-1815
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Underground Railroad
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Underground Railroad from the Canadian Encyclopedia
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United States Department of Justice: Civil Rights Division: Introduction to Federal Voting Rights Laws.
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University of Michigan Library Digital Archive. Brown v Board of Education
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Venture Smith's Colonial Connecticut: Primary and Secondary Sources to Support Inquiry Projects about Colonial Connecticut
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Visualizing Emancipation: a Map of Slavery’s End During the American Civil War.
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When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras