A 1.75 mile walk in the historic African American neighborhoods of Florence. We'll visit homes of Sojourner Truth, David Ruggles, Basil and Cynthia Dorsey, Hannah Randall, Henry Anthony, Laura Knowles Washington and others. The story of this unique community will be told where it happened. The tour begins at the Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue at [...]

The David Ruggles Center along with massHumanities and Historic Northampton is cosponsoring a public reading of Frederick Douglass's 1852 historic 4th of July address on Saturday, July 3 at 11AM at Historic Northampton. We will be joining many communities statewide in this reading as part of this annual massHumanities event. Often now referred to as, [...]