Influenza in Connecticut, 1918
Lester H. Thompson, a Connecticut soldier from New Haven, lost his life shortly after arriving in France in 1918. His parents thought “he caught a cold on the transport” and that it later...
Category: African American
The Hartford Chronicle Family
LCCN: sn95063011, Hartford-Springfield Chronicle (Springfield, Mass.), 1940-194? LCCN: sn92051342, Hartford Chronicle (Hartford, Conn.), 194?-1947 LCCN: sn92051345, Connecticut Chronicle (Hartford, Conn.) 194?-194? LCCN: sn92051343, New England Bulletin (Hartford, Conn.) 1949-19?? On March 26, 1949,...
Introducing the Hartford Chronicle Family of African American Newspapers
The Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project is soon to digitize historical state African American weeklies from the World World II era. On March 26, 1949, Editor Ernie Durham and President George W. Goodman of the...
Industrial Education, North and South: The Connecticut Connection
By Allison Horrocks In 1915, Booker T. Washington, the so-called “Wizard of Tuskegee” gave his last public talk while on tour in Connecticut. This was not Washington’s first time in Connecticut. Over the course...
Black History Month: Remembering New Haven-born Black Nationalist William H. Ferris
By Chris Gauvreau In August of 1922, New Haven-born intellectual and activist William H. Ferris (1874-1941) was elected to travel as a delegate of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) to Europe. There he...
African Americans in the CT National Guard, 1870 to 1919
An item titled “Race Feeling at Manassas” in the New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier of September 6, 1904 should alert historians to the fact that the story of the Black...
Connecticut African Americans Found the Sumner League, August 1894
On August 22, 1894, around 200 Connecticut African American leaders met at the famous Savin Rock establishment of the caterer J. W. Stewart and formed a new organization for the “betterment of the conditions...
African Americans and Civil Rights in Progressive Era Connecticut
Introduction “For African Americans,” urban historian Steven J. Diner wrote, “the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century seemed in many respects the worst of times” (p....
Black History Month, February, 2016
The Norwich African American Community Takes on “The Clansman,” 1909 Last week, a brand new Sundance film called “The Birth of a Nation” made the news when a distributor paid a cool $17.5 million...