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America's First Freedom Riders: Massachusetts in 1840
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Fee:
Free.Dates & Times
Date:
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Time:
6:00 PM
Duration:
1 hour
Type of Event
Partner Program
Talk
Virtual/Digital
Description
Join Boston Public Library in partnership with The National Park Service for a virtual program on America's First Freedom Riders: Massachusetts in 1840.
In the early 1800s Massachusetts cities, towns, theaters, streetcars, and railroads practiced, in the words of William Lloyd Garrison "an odious distinction on account of color and a bullying propensity to carry it out." In 1840, Black and White male and female activists began to attack this segregation with a series of public sit-ins and “ride-ins.” This program tells the stories of these first American Freedom Riders, the insults, expulsions, and physical assaults they endured, and the victories they won.
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