Museum of African American History Lectures

Boston, MA

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part II
Hill Harper
October 3, 2009
01:31:12
CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincol
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part I
Malik Neal
October 3, 2009
00:50:40
CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincol
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Mr. and Mrs. Prince: Out of Slavery and Into Legend
Gretchen Gerzina Holbrook
June 12, 2008
00:54:01
Gretchen Gerzina Holbrook, author of Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend, tells the remarkable true story of a pre-Civil War African-American family in New England. Mr. and Mrs.
Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom
David W. Blight
May 8, 2008
00:48:05
David W. Blight, Yale professor and historian, discusses his latest work, A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation.
Museums Online: New Ways to Visit Museums
Katherine Burton Jones
April 30, 2008
01:17:04
Katherine Burton Jones discusses how museums are serving and being shaped by new audiences, using Web 2.0 technologies. Burton Jones assistant dean of Media Services at Harvard Divinity School, discusses new multimedia approaches to the museum experience.
Electing a Black President
Michael Eric Dyson
November 8, 2007
01:39:59
Michael Eric Dyson and a panel of black elected officials discuss the possibility of electing a black president as we head into an historical election year.
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William Lloyd Garrison: Words of Thunder
Deval Patrick
August 6, 2005
01:56:24
This bicentennial celebration, co-presented by the Museum of Afro-American History and the Boston Public Library, includes The Massachusetts 54th Regiment and musical performances by Vivian Cooley-Collier, Guy Peartree, and the Studio Singers of the Eliot Congregational Church of Roxbury.
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A Gathering Place for Freedom
Beverly Morgan-Welch
February 10, 2005
01:05:05
The Massachusetts Historical Society hosts a lecture given by the Museum of Afro-American History's executive director, Beverly Morgan-Welch, on the role that the Museum of Afro-American History's meeting house has played in Massachusetts history.
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Native American Slave Trade in New England
Thomas Doughton
April 22, 2004
01:57:25
Panelists from around the country converge to discuss how the history of the Native American slave trade taints New England's past.
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Free People of Color in New England
Julie Winch
April 22, 2004
01:56:22
A panel discusses New England's role in the conduct of the slave trade and the recent compilation of data related to that trade that makes this an auspicious time to examine new research in this area.
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Complicity: How The North Profited From Slavery
Anne Farrow
January 12, 2006
01:19:31
Conventional wisdom is challenged as Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank, the authors of Complicity: How The North Promoted, Prolonged, And Profited From Slavery, discuss their findings in a public talk.
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Slavery and the Making of America
Kathryn Grover
February 2, 2005
00:56:52
Charles Ogletree, Vivian Johnson and Kathryn Grover discuss PBS's new series Slavery and the Making of America after a special public preview screening.

The Museum of African American History was founded to preserve and interpret the contributions of people of African descent and those who have found common cause with them in the struggle for liberty and justice for all Americans. Through permanent and rotating exhibits, a wide range of public and education programs ranging from debates to concerts, and summer youth camps to Underground Railroad Overnight Adventures, it places the African American experience in an accurate social, cultural and historical perspective. Incorporated in 1967, the Museum is nationally and internationally known for The African Meeting House, a National Historic Landmark, and Abiel Smith School on Boston's Beacon Hill, The African Meeting House on Nantucket, and Black Heritage Trails® in Boston and Nantucket.
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