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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 StatesIn 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 StatesThe 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 [...]