Hartford History Lecture Series “A Black Ecological Return to Charter Oak Terrace”
Connecticut's Old State House, 800 Main St, Hartford, CT 06103, USAFEATURING Channon Miller, Assistant Professor of American Studies and History, Trinity College As much as water protects, nourishes, and sustains Black children’s lives, it also restrains, suffocates, and degrades them. The residents of Hartford’s Charter Oak Terrace confronted a water-based ecological catastrophe in the 1960s. A flooding river—channeled by municipal neglect, class inequality, and racial […]