To research, preserve, and interpret the history of beacon hill, focusing on the 19th century african-american community

Arts & Culture , Arts, Culture & Humanities

Celebrated the "river of women's courage", a commemoration of bravery by the boston female anti-slavery society facing a violent mob oct 21, 1835. Event featured presentations by dr loretta williams and representatives of the national park service - boston african american national historic site; followed by a reinactment of the historic march. (25+ attended) "frederick douglass's 'the meaning of july fourth for the negro' in the era of barack obama" - an open-participatory reading from his 1852 oration held july 4th in tubman square, boston (20+ attended) distributed email notices for local history events of interest to our mailing list (100+ subscribers) visited the isaac royall house and slave quarters in medford, massachusetts (15 attended) "boston's black cyclists of the 1890s" a public lecture by dr lorenz finison. Co-sponsored with the museum of african american history. (50 attended) bhs members horace seldon and garth griffin collaborated on the "liberator project" for the benefit of the public and historians: digital analysis and indexing of the contents of 19th century abolitionist william lloyd garrison's periodical, to enable research using data mining, event tracking, multimedia visualzation & interaction