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Tour highlights Florence’s abolitionist history
A group listens as Steve Strimer leads the African American Heritage Trail in the David Ruggles Center For Early Florence History and Underground Railroad Studies on Martin Luther King Day. GAZETTE STAFF/CAROL LOLLIS
People on a walking tour listen as Steve Strimer talks about the African-American Heritage Trail at the Sojourner Truth statue in Florence, Monday. GAZETTE STAFF/CAROL LOLLIS
A group lead by Steve Strimer on the African American Heritage Trail walks into the David Ruggles Center For Early Florence History and Underground Railroad Studies on Martin Luther King Day. GAZETTE STAFF/CAROL LOLLIS
What do an agricultural inventor, a visionary sculptor and grocery-turned-bookstore owner have in common?
They re all Black New Englanders who you probably don t know much about – but definitely should.
Here are 10 individuals stories to learn during Black History Month.
Who helped organize the National Federation of Afro-American Women?
Ruffin is later credited with organizing the National Federation of Afro-American Women in 1895. She also convened the first National Conference of the Colored Women of America, which drew attendees to Boston from 14 states.
She was a founding charter member of the NAACP in 1910.
Today, Ruffin is among six influential women depicted in bronze busts at the Mass. State House.
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This article is part of Liberation’s commemoration of Black History Month, 2021.
May I say a few words? I want to say a few words about this matter. I am a woman’s rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I have heard much about the sexes being equal; I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much too, if I can get it. I am as strong as any man that is now. As for intellect, all I can say is, if women have a pint and man a quart – why can’t she have her little pint full? You need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we will take too much, for we can’t take more than our pint’ll hold. The poor men seem to be all in confusion, and don’t know what to do. Why children, if you have women’s rights, give it to her and you will feel better. You will have your own rights, and they won’t be so much trouble. I c
They re all Black New Englanders who you probably don t know much about – but definitely should.
Here are 10 individuals stories to learn during Black History Month.
Who helped organize the National Federation of Afro-American Women?
Ruffin is later credited with organizing the National Federation of Afro-American Women in 1895. She also convened the first National Conference of the Colored Women of America, which drew attendees to Boston from 14 states.
She was a founding charter member of the NAACP in 1910.
Today, Ruffin is among six influential women depicted in bronze busts at the Mass. State House.
Why is Prince Whipple important?
Prince Whipple, an enslaved and later freed man in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, notably fought at the battles of Saratoga and in Delaware during the Revolutionary War. He was one of 20 enslaved men who petitioned the New Hampshire Legislature for freedom in 1779 – a time when literacy was unusual among the enslaved in t