Meet Jack Stains, a “Black Jack” in Historic Old Portsmouth: A Living History Tour

Panel #4: Eyes on the Prize: Protests, Movements, and the Road Ahead February 23, 2025 | 2 PM | Portsmouth Public Library African American civic movements and participation in wars have often been driven by deep moral and ethical goals—freedom, equality, and human dignity. The Civil Rights Movement, for instance, was led by individuals who invoked faith as a unifying force, drawing from Christian theology, African spiritual traditions, and a collective consciousness of liberation. Effective leadership, like in The Art of…

Date: Saturday, April 26, 2025 Time: 10 AM Location: The Nehemiah Hayward Homestead, 19 Maple Street, Milford, NH Free and open to the public. More details to come.

"What to the Slave is your Fourth of July?" Saturday, June 28, 2025 | Noon | Various Towns Across New Hampshire  On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist and heroic orator for liberty, delivered one of his most famous speeches in which he asked, “What to the slave is your Fourth of July?” In addressing an Independence Day observance in Rochester, New York, his speech was a blistering indictment of an American idealism that ignored and accepted the inhuman…