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I’m one of those know-it-alls who actually doesn’t know very much at all. The most recent reminder came from the Connecticut Library Association program called “Passport to Connecticut Libraries.”
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Using West Hartford as an example, learn what some common real estate terms really mean—“redlining,” steering, and exclusionary zoning—and how they affected West Hartford’s neighborhoods. Click a photo below to read the full article and listen to our podcast episode with the author. Please note that this episode contains outdated language used in historical context.

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We are so honored to have our new book 'Venture Smith's Colonial Connecticut' featured at the State Capitol this Friday! Read more at venturesmithcolonialct.org #CT #history ...
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Historian Barbara Beeching describes the creation of a black middle class in Hartford – not in the twentieth century, but back in the 1800s. It's a tale full of insights and surprises – not the least of which is Beeching herself.
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In an unforgettable interview, historian Barbara Beeching describes the creation of a black middle class in Hartford – not in the twentieth century, but back in the 1800s. It's a tale full of insights and surprises – not the least of which is Beeching herself. &n...
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New podcast episode! CT Explored publisher Elizabeth Normen sits down with Dr. Benjamin Foster and Connecticut State Representative Bobby Gibson to talk about their efforts to pass legislation requiring teaching African American history in Connecticut, their vision for the curriculum, and why it matters.
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Gerry Peterson tells us and historian Jeffrey Mainville , author of this story “The Midway Golf Club”, Hartford’s part in the national struggle to end racial discrimination at municipal golf courses in America.
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Hartford native Gerry Peterson has played golf with President Barack Obama and was inducted into the Black Golf Hall of Fame in 2015. Golf has always been a huge part of his life from his start as a kid caddie during the Depression to playing as a young executive at Aetna Life and Casualty. But what...
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Dates: January 15 - 17 Tickets: Regular Museum Admission Please note: Tickets purchased online or at the gate for the Ice Festival are valid for all three days of the event. Members: Museum Members come in for FREE! Shake off that cabin fever with three days of winter fun at our annual Ice Festival!...
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After World War II, one Connecticut community made a conscious effort to reject racial segregation. The founders of Village Creek in Norwalk created a cooperative neighborhood which promised not to discriminate based on "race, color, creed or politics."
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Grating the Nutmeg: 65. Norwalk's Village Creek Ahead of Its Time
After World War II, one Connecticut community made a conscious effort to reject racial segregation. The founders of Village Creek in Norwalk created a cooperative neighborhood which promised not to discriminate based on "race, color, creed or politics." Over the next decades, the Villagers fa...
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My daughter lives in Norwalk. Great little city. The Village Creek neighborhood still looks like an interesting place to live.
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CT Explored is celebrating Black History Month! In this podcast episode, Dr. Traci Parker of the University of Massachusetts, with some editorial commentary from host Natalie Belanger talk about what department stores like G. Fox meant to consumers and retail workers alike, and how they become sites of struggle in the civil rights movement. Stream: bit.ly/2U6bbek ...
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A social studies and language arts resource for fifth to eighth graders -- 'Venture Smith's Colonial Connecticut' -- out now.

Students will learn about Connecticut's founding through the real life of Venture Smith in this true story of freedom first published in 1798. Venture Smith tells students about his capture as a boy in West Africa, survival of the Middle Passage, and dramatic quest to free himself from slavery to become a successful farmer, fisherman, and trader in the American Revolutionary era.
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This looks wonderful!This January 24, we are thrilled to present “Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated).” This prolific exhibit not only launches the Museum’s 2020/20+ Women @ NBMAA initiative, but also marks the debut of the Museum’s recent acquisition of Walker’s 2005 print series “Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)”
Presented in a series of large-scale prints, “Kara Walker” considers experiences of racism towards African Americans that were only alluded to in historical representations of the Civil War.
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This famous jazz club was listed in the Green Book Travel Guide for African Americans in 1947. We’ll have more about it and the Green Book in our upcoming Spring issue! Hope the building can be preserved! ...
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Ocean Management hopes to transform two vacant Dixwell Avenue properties into apartment buildings with three- and four-bedroom units, including 40 percent subsidized housing. An owner’s representative shared a concept for...
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Laboring in the Shade | Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project
Thousands of black Southern students, including a young Martin Luther King Jr., came north to work in Connecticut's tobacco fields.
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I had no idea that so many great people worked in the tobacco fields
It didn’t seem So glamorous the summer of 1967 when we worked there
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This Marxophone dates back to 1910 and is used to this day at Dirt Floor Recording & Production ! Hear more about vintage recording in our newest #GratingTheNutmeg podcast episode steaming now on @spotify @apple 🎶💻 #podcast #episode #history #music ...
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Our new issue and podcast cover things that went obsolete overnight - like Connecticut's Royal Typewriter Co.!
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Worked at Royal for 22 years total in the New Park and Windsor facilities. Now Konica Minolta and moving to NJ. The New Park buildings were owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford and Royal leased the space
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