Maine Memory Network

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Lee, Maureen Elgersman, Blck Bangor: African Americans in a Maine Community, 1880-1950, 2005, University Press of New England, Hanover, N.H."

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations

"We did similar things to the Native Americans here. And, frankly, ten years after Malaga Island was destroyed, the largest Ku Klux Klan rally in the…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - About the Project

"The article detailed Malaga’s history, including the myths Matt discovered, and so much more – the context of eugenics, racism, economics, and…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"For some it was silence, for others history was buried in anger or denial. And, they say the barbs and slurs from neighbors have lessened over the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"While African Americans received the right vote in 1870 and women the right to vote in 1920, the United State government did not give this right to…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"… for a total of 1,097 inhabitants, including 18 African Americans. By the time of the first US Census of 1790, the town’s population had almost…"

Music in Maine - Community Music

"… feature “call and response” formats based on African songs developed by enslaved peoples in the American South."

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"… music, and banjo and blues from formerly enslaved Africans. People heard country and bluegrass on records and radio broadcasts, influencing…"

Lincoln, Maine - Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1920

"Charles Fuller. This house was occupied by an African American troop detachment sent here to guard the railroad bridges in Lincoln, Mattawamkeag and…"

Lincoln, Maine - Civil War

"… in your life today?" Without the Civil War most African Americans and even women would not have a lot of the rights that they have today."

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… to this day by having his name listed on the African-American Civil War Monument in Washington, D.C."

Wilson Museum

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"During the 1800's a fair number of African Americans made Bangor their home. John Holyoke, a man from Brewer, was another abolitionist from the…"