Racial Healing

Understanding our history of racial injustice: America’s history of racial inequality continues to undermine fair
treatment, equal justice, and opportunity for many Americans. The Equal Justice Initiative believes we must acknowledge the truth about our history before we can heal: truth and reconciliation are sequential

Who got the right to vote when?

A history of voting rights in America.

As a country we are still working towards universal suffrage. As we celebrate the 19th Amendment we must remember that we are not able to celebrate the votes of all women but some women. There is still work to be done. We must vote on November 3, 2020 in honor of those who were unable to vote in elections throughout US history.

Racial Learning

#UndertheRock – We’re searching out and sharing history that needs to be told. Ever heard of Elizabeth Freeman. She was an enslaved African in revolutionary MA who listened to the white men she was serving talk about freedom, the rights of all humans, and decided that this included her. In 1781 she engaged a lawyer to sue for freedom. She won her lawsuit which used the Massachusetts Constitution as the basis for her freedom.  Her case was the basis for the end of slavery in MA and she lived the rest of her life as a freewoman working as a paid housekeeper for the family of the lawyer who argued her case.  Elizabeth Freeman, 1781 lawsuit,
and end of slavery in MA should be come out from under the rock and be as well known as 1620, Pilgrims, and Mayflower. What history do you need to learn to expand the historical narrative?