Calendar of Events

Featured Speaker: Raymond A. Wimbush, Director of the Institute for Urban Research Morgan State UniversityThis event is FREE and open to the general public. Among reparations scholars and activists, Belinda Royall’s 1782 Petition to the Massachusetts Legislature, marks the beginning of the reparations struggle in what would become the United States of America. Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman's […]

Hike up your petticoats and join us in Hartford for A Night at the Public House: Let Them Vote! Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist (and special guests from Sea Tea Improv) will be on hand to tell the story of Isabella Beecher Hooker and the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association’s fight for the enfranchisement of women in Connecticut. […]

Featured Speaker: Kevin Johnson, History & Genealogy UnitConnecticut State LibraryThis event is FREE and open to the general public. The Connecticut Freedom Trail and CT's Old State House are pleased to present present Kevin Johnson as William Webb, an African-American Civil War Soldier from Connecticut. Private Webb was an actual soldier, a native of Hartford. He was […]