Rhode Island's Black Heritage
People of African descent have been part of Rhode Island’s population and culture since the seventeenth century. For a century, they were carried to Rhode Isla…
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Education at Any Costlocation_fill"I remember being much pleased with my nice clothes, and still more so, as I saw so many boys and girls of all…
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Along the Waterfrontlocation_fillImagine the Fox Point waterfront in the 1940s. Cargo ships lined up to get into crowded docks. Longshoremen bu… -
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The Celebrity Club: Best Jazz in Providencelocation_fillOn November 18, 1949, at 56 Randall Street, in the mostly poor, mostly black, Randall Square neighborhood, loc… -
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God’s Little Acrelocation_fill“In Memory of Duchess Quamino, A free black of distinguished excellence: Intelligent, Industrious, Affectionat… -
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The World was his Oysterlocation_fill“I would have been a millionaire today if I had bent to prejudice.” So said George Thomas Downing, prominent A… -
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The Brown Founders' Legacylocation_fillFed up! Perhaps they didn't hear you the first time. Every so often, you have to redeliver the message. That’s… -
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"Watchman, what of the night?"location_fillBy the early 1900s, race relations in the United Sates had grown increasingly tumultuous. Despite the abolishm… -
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“Deliver me from the Oppression of Man.”location_fillThe worn wooden collection box, passed from hand to hand, slowly made its way through the crowded Quaker meeti…
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