Keywords: Hate crimes
Item 108741
Maine Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance Pin, Portland, ca. 1994
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1994 Location: Portland Media: Metal
Item 192
Ku Klux Klan outfit, Hollis, 1963
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1963-08-04 Location: Hollis Center Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
Exhibit
Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"In New England, this war was hated as the years prior to its outbreak caused great economic difficulty to a region dependent upon maritime trade."
Story
Margaret Moxa's Blanket Coat
by Jennifer Neptune
A contemporary artwork in memory of Penobscots murdered for scalp bounties.
Story
An Asian American Account
by Zabrina
An account from a Chinese American teen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
