African Heritage

Manet Fowler Interviews 1941

Under the heading, Dutchess County Defense Attitudes, the anthropologist Manet Fowler, early in her career, conducted interviews among Blacks in…

4 years ago

Lessons from College Hill

These two-minute videos are productions of Celebrating the African Spirit and draw from the August 2, 2021 reenactment of Frederick…

4 years ago

Home of the Free

This Hyde Park house was home to a local, former enslaved man and his wife By Bill Jeffway A version…

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The New Guinea Trail

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Invisible People, Untold Stories

In a landmark article in the 1987 DCHS Yearbook, the late Lorraine M. Roberts and Professor Lawrence H. Mamiya wrote…

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Free Black Communities

Free Black Communities: Bulwarks of Safety Before the Civil War The January 26, 2022 edition of the No./So. Dutchess News…

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1941 Manet Fowler Interviews Poughkeepsie

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1921 Yearbook

18th century Livingston letters: Letters related to enslaved persons from printed page 54:

5 years ago

Enslaved Persons Cemetery ~ Storm Family

In 2010, when the Black History Committee of Dutchess County unveiled this marker, it was forward looking and progressive to…

5 years ago