Beyond Forty Acres: Land Ownership, and Black Wealth
Portsmouth Public Library, Livingston Room 175 Parrott Ave, PortsmouthPresenters: Lydia Clemmons, Medical Anthropologist, President Clemmons Family Farm Inc Christle Rollins-Jackson, President Beacon Hill Scholars, Boston, MA Keith W. Stokes, (TBC) Co-author “A Matter of Truth: The Struggle for African Heritage and Indigenous People Equal Rights in Providence, Rhode Island.” Moderator: Karen A. Spiller, Professor in Sustainability Food Systems, UNH, Durham, NH In the 1930s and 1940s, as African Americans in urban centers like New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston began to establish themselves as part of the middle and upper-middle…
