Virtual Reading of Frederick Douglass’s Speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Saturday, July 4th • 10 a.m. • Recorded for viewing anytime On July 4th friends and supporters of The Robbins House will be reading Frederick Douglass’s speech together virtually. We invite you to log in and join us, and stay…
Concord Museum Forums Event Kerri Greenidge, Director of American Studies at Tufts University, reestablishes William Monroe Trotter’s essential place in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes. For more than thirty years, the Harvard-educated Trotter edited and published the Guardian, a weekly Boston newspaper that was read across the nation. Trotter advocated for a radical…
Massachusetts Historical Society & Sponsors Online Public Program Tonight! Thurs, Feb. 18th • 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. The Confronting Racial Injustice Series offers five monthly programs hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society and Northeastern University Law School’s Criminal Justice Task Force, sponsored by a number of Boston area organizations. Massachusetts is often heralded as the…
With Angela Saini, author of Superior: The Return of Race Science Free – registration required The Museum of Science welcomes award-winning science journalist, broadcaster, and author of Superior: The Return of Race Science Angela Saini for a special one-night-only virtual conversation about the murky history of race science and the ways in which it’s being…
As the Concord Museum installs a new permanent gallery to chronicle the history of slavery in our town and the efforts to abolish it, join us for a conversation with Kyera Singleton (Executive Director of The Royall House and Slave Quarters) and Niya Bates (formerly a public historian at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello) as they discuss…
Directed by Barbara Pierre; Accompanied by David Coleman Thurs. Feb. 25th • 8:00 p.m. • In collaboration with The Robbins House Free - registration required Join The Umbrella for a special Black History Month edition of their virtual cabaret series produced in collaboration with The Robbins House. Performers will present songs on the themes of…
Concord Museum Virtual Event Co-sponsored by The Robbins House Register here https://concordmuseum.org/events/the-letters-of-ellen-garrison/. Ellen Garrison, the daughter and granddaughter of men who had been enslaved, spent her life educating newly freed people and fighting for their civil rights. Born and raised in Concord, she followed in her mother’s footsteps as an antislavery activist. After the Civil…
June 17, 2021• 8:15 PM—10:30 PM • Concord Museum & The Robbins House Suggested ticket: $5.00 • Advanced registration required The Robbins House partners with the Concord Museum in a screening of Harriet on the eve of Juneteenth to celebrate and continue the conversation raised by Harriet Tubman’s life. This award-winning Own Voices film directed by Kasi…
June 19, 2021 • 11:00 AM—2:30 PM Concord Museum in partnership with The Robbins House Member Tickets $5.00 ea. Non-Member Tickets $15.00 ea. Tickets include same-day admission to the Concord Museum. 19th century Concord was teeming with activists and intellectuals who cultivated the beginning of the antislavery movement. Coinciding with the celebration of Juneteenth, a…
Join us at the Robbins House as we celebrate her life and Juneteenth with a live stream of the Mountain View Cemetery celebration and a talk by our Program Director, Nikki Turpin.
