Black History Resources for Cambridge Club October 19, 2021

QUICK PRE-MEETING READS

A New Yorker review of Kerri Greenidge’s book, Black Radical https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/25/the-legacy-of-a-radical-black-newspaperman  

The Cambridge Black History Project https://cambridgeblackhistoryproject.org/ 

African American Women of 19th Century Cambridge MA https://www.theclio.com/tour/1958 This is a digital adaptation and walking tour of Cambridge Historical Commission, “American Heritage Trail”. Cambridge, MA, January 2000. (Available at the Cambridge Historical Commission and History Cambridge)

Banta, Elizabeth, African American Heritage Trail, Cambridge, MA, Friends of Mount Auburn 2013. https://mountauburn.org/african-american-trail/ 

Beckert, Sven and Katherine Stevens and the students of the Harvard and Slavery Research Seminar, “Harvard and Slavery: Seeking a Forgotten History”. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University 2011. http://www.harvardandslavery.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Harvard-Slavery-Book-111110.pdf N.B. Sven Beckert is the father of 2018 Moot Award winner Pascal Beckert- McGirr

“Special Focus: The State of Black Cambridge.” A special section of Equity & Innovation Cities: The Case of Cambridge. A research report of the Cambridge Community Foundation. April 2021. https://cambridgecf.org/ei-report/special-focus/ 

MORE IN-DEPTH

Greenidge, Kerri K., Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter. New York, New York W.W. Norton & Company Inc. 2020

Dorman, Franklin A., Twenty Families of Color in Massachusetts 1742 – 1998. Boston, MA, The New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1998

“Stories Impossible to Tell” https://www.firstchurchcambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Stories-Impossible-to-Tell-21019.pdf

First Church Cambridge and Slavery https://www.firstchurchcambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FCC-and-Slavery-092318-Presentation.pdf

OTHER RESOURCES

https://historycambridge.org/early-black-cambridge-resource-hub/African 

https://cambridgehistoricalcommission.wpcomstaging.com/2020/02/ 

https://cambridgehistoricalcommission.wpcomstaging.com/2021/02/ https://www.cambridgema.gov/cpl/Services/Collections/blackstudies 

https://www.cambridgehistorymuseum.com/copy-of-summer-pride-history-stroll