In honor of MLK Day, join Concord historian Richard Smith and Robbins House Programming Director Nikki Turpin for a conversation about Thoreau’s legacy of civil disobedience. Thoreau’s arrest for non-payment of taxes as a protest against slavery laid the ground for his essay Civil Disobedience, which Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, and other […]
For the first time in 200 years, on April 14, 2023, Concord will publicly honor and celebrate the birth of one of its most inspirational daughters, Ellen Garrison and showcase the 1841 visit of Frederick Douglass to Concord! Presented by Robbins House and is the first event of Concord 250 celebration. Free and suitable for […]
Food, Music and Celebration! Celebrated at the Robbins House, 320 Monument Street, Concord
The Robbins House, Concord’s African American History Museum, presents author Ray Anthony Shepard. Shepard discusses A Long Time Coming, his new biography-in-verse of six impactful Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama, chronicling their diverse ways of fighting racism. Shepard […]
Goodwin Forum, Main Library Black History in Concord: The Robbins House and Ellen GarrisonLearn about the history of The Robbins House and the stories of the Robbins and Garrison families, and Ellen Garrison's journey from a school girl in Concord to her civil rights activism during Reconstruction.The Robbins House, located on 320 Monument Street in […]
Concord250 in collaboration with Minuteman National Park , The Robbins House and the Concord Visitors Center launches this new walking tour . In celebration of Black History Month this inaugural tour will be free to the public and all ages are welcome. https://visitconcord.org/visit/walking-tours/ A Fight for Freedom: Patriots of Color Walking Tour FEB 22 1pm Between twenty and forty […]
Pasadena city leader Veronica Jones comes to speak in Concord about their work honoring Black history. 4/13. 2pm at CFPL Sponsored by Robbins House, Concord 250 and Special Collections For 129 years, Black educator and activist Ellen Garrison lay unsung and forgotten in an unmarked grave in Altadena, California’s Mountain View Cemetery. Ellen Garrison, native […]
For over 10,000 years, humans have lived in this area, which we know as modern Concord, yet many of their stories have not been entirely told. With new research and a greater understanding of past events, we open new windows and opportunities to tell fuller stories of our community’s people. From the Indigenous beginning of […]
