Hartford History Lecture Series “A Black Ecological Return to Charter Oak Terrace”
October 17 @ 5:45 pm - October 18 @ 7:00 am
Hartford History Lecture Series
A Black Ecological Return to Charter Oak Terrace
Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 5:45 PM
FEATURING
Channon Miller, Assistant Professor of AmericanStudies and History, Trinity College
As much as water protects, nourishes, and sustains Blackchildren’s lives, it also restrains, suffocates, and degrades them. Theresidents of Hartford’s Charter Oak Terrace confronted a water-based ecologicalcatastrophe in the 1960s. A flooding river—channeled by municipal neglect,class inequality, and racial segregation—drowned several children. The neighborhood’smothers forged the Association of Concerned Parents of Charter Oak (ACP) anddemanded that the city halt the nearby highway construction that propelled theriver’s overflow. Dr. Miller will excavate the unwritten history of the Blackwomen-led ACP and chronicle an early rendering of a local environmental justicemovement.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
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