Ekua Holmes, the author and illustrator of Black is a Rainbow Color, is coming to the Museum this Sunday (December 10) from 1-3pm for An Afternoon with Authors and Illustrators as part of their Family Trees program. Meet some of the accomplished authors and illustrators whose books are featured in Family Trees: A Celebration of…
June 22, 2021 • 7:00 PM—8:00 PM • Suggested ticket: $5.00 Join MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and Harvard University Professor Tiya Miles as she discusses her new book, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, a story about women, mothers, and daughters, who chose the profundity of love over dehumanizing condition.…
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…
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…
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…
February 13, 2019 • 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM • Churchill and Janet Franklin Lyceum at the Rasmussen Education Center, Concord Museum • Free, please register
Thursday, May 10 • 7:00-8:00 PM • Concord Museum
Join writer and historian Jonathan Michael Square as he analyzes past images of free Africans Americans in New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston that appeared in the popular press.
Thursday, September 29, 7-9PM
Thursday, September 29, 7-9PM
August 16 @7:00 pm
