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  • MLK Day Service Fair

    Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity 130 Pine St, Florence, MA, United States

    In honor of Martin Luther King Day, Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity is hosting a Service Fair. Connect your desire to serve with organizations already working in your community on issues you care about. The DRC will be represented at the fair.

  • MLK Day: Museum Open in Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    David Ruggles Center 225 Nonotuck St., Florence, MA, United States

    In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the museum at the David Ruggles Center will be open Monday, January 20, 12-4 PM. Visitors can learn about Black Americans, many formerly enslaved, who lived in Florence and Northampton in the 1840s and 1850s and fought against the institution of slavery and racial injustice. This history [...]

  • Annual Basil Dorsey Day Walking Tour and Open House: Celebrate Black History Month at the DRC

    David Ruggles Center 225 Nonotuck St., Florence, MA, United States

    Come join us for our annual Basil Dorsey Day Walking Tour and Open House this Saturday, 10AM-1PM. 10 AM Walking Tour: The Basil Dorsey Walking Tour highlighting key sites in Dorsey's life will start at 10AM at the David Ruggles Center in Florence. Dress warmly!  10-1 Open House: The museum will be open 10-1 with our [...]

  • The Fourth Annual Power Of Truths Arts & Education Festival w/ DRC Local Antislavery Resistance History Tour at BOMBYX

    Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity 130 Pine St, Florence, MA, United States

    Dedicated to harnessing the power of arts and education for racial and social justice, the power of truths festival returns for its fourth year. Sponsored by Self-Evident Education and the Northampton Arts Council, the festival offers a unique opportunity to help build a community dedicated to seeing and understanding the history of racism and resistance, [...]

  • 2025 Founders Day Symposium: Jennifer Rycenga on her new book, Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women

    Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity 130 Pine St, Florence, MA, United States

    In 1830s Connecticut, Prudence Crandall, a white woman, stood against racism to open a private academy for young Black women. Author and Professor Emerita Jennifer Rycenga will detail the story of Crandall and her courageous students' resistance in the face of the ensuing racist backlash. As is often the case, the effort to suppress rights [...]

  • DRC Museum Open: Sundays 12-4, May-October

    David Ruggles Center 225 Nonotuck St., Florence, MA, United States

      The DRC is open Sunday afternoons, 12-4. Come learn about the courageous individuals in 1840s and 1850s Florence who challenged slavery and prejudice, and sought to build a community based on principles of race, gender, class and religious equality. Exhibits tells the stories of famous abolitionist icons who lived in Florence like Sojourner Truth [...]

  • Juneteenth DRC Open House: June 19, 12-4

    David Ruggles Center 225 Nonotuck St., Florence, MA, United States

    In honor of the Juneteenth holiday, the David Ruggles Center will be hosting an Open House on Thursday, June 19 from 12-4 PM. To learn more about the Juneteenth holiday, visit the website of the National Museum for African American History and Culture: https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/our-american-story-juneteenth. Then come by the museum and learn about the local efforts [...]

  • David Ruggles Week in Lyme CT/ Zoom

    Lyme Public Library 482 Hamburg Rd., Lyme, Connecticut, United States

    David Ruggles was born in Lyme, CT in 1810. The Lyme Public Library is hosting a David Ruggles Week to honor their hometown hero and his unwavering crusade for racial justice. Events include four compelling lectures about different aspects of Ruggles’ life. Click on the poster above for details. To register for the Zoom link [...]

  • Museum Closed Sunday Sept 7

    The DRC will be closed this Sunday, but we will be open next week! For more information about visiting, please email us at info@davidrugglescenter.org.

  • Book Launch Celebration: Protesting with Rosa Parks

    Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity 130 Pine St, Florence, MA, United States

    Protesting with Rosa Parks details the history of the intersections between Black activism and travel over a span of one hundred and ninety years. John K. Bollard, the author and long-time Florence resident, will present protest stories from the more than ninety-five civil rights leaders and private citizens who protested against segregation on stagecoaches, trains, [...]

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