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Ellen Tested our Nation’s First Civil Rights Bill

Baltimore, MD Train Station

Robbins House Humanities Director Elon Cook visited Baltimore’s President Street train station in costume, where Ellen Garrison defended her right to sit in the ladies’ waiting room on May 7, 1866. The Civil Rights Bill of 1866, enacted on April 9th, was the first US federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected – it was mainly intended to protect the civil rights of African Americans in the wake of the Civil War.

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Concord’s African American History Goes to School

The Concord Education Fund (CEF) granted $16,000 this past spring to a team of teachers led by Robbins House board member Johanna Glazer for curriculum development work on African American history and updating the material in the 1976 book, Concord: Its Black History. The Concord and Concord-Carlisle school systems have committed to funding the website development pieces of this project. This grant also serves as a match for educational resources for our Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS) grant.

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Recent Research Revelations

Hot Off the Press! or, the National Archives Records of the Freedmen’s Bureau Scholar-in-residence John Hannigan just discovered a letter…

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Gaining National Momentum

The Robbins House included in more high profile Black History & museum conferences The Future of the African American Past…

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