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Historical Items Showing 3 of 48 View All
Item 1130
Title: Five seated African American adults, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1900
Location: Houlton
Media: Black and white photograph
Item 34723
Title: Black Power banner, Waterville, 1970
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1970
Location: Waterville
Media: Cotton
Item 53713
Title: Alpha Rho Upsilon, Bowdoin College, 1948
Contributed by: Bowdoin College Library
Date: 1948
Location: Brunswick
Media: Ink on paper
Exhibits Showing 3 of 3 View All
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Maine's black population has never been large, but blacks have lived and worked in communities large and small throughout the state since early colonial days.
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These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
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Black soldiers served in Maine during World War II, assigned in small numbers throughout the state to guard Grand Trunk rail lines from a possible German attack. The soldiers, who lived in railroad cars near their posts often interacted with local residents.