Add to ORKGBlack Portlander Merita McKenzie researches the history of Blacks in Maine; funded by the Portland Bicentennial Committee
A brief exploration of how the earliest Black Mainers came to the state, as sailors, soldiers, and s...
WMPG celebrates the lives of Black men and women throughout the month of February. Born and raised o...
June McKenzie, a fifth-generation Mainer, was born in Portland, Maine, in 1929, one of twelve childr...
In September 1826, a group of six African American men addressed a letter “To the Public” on behalf ...
Cover Story piece on I Make My Home in Maine: Honoring Black and African Heritage, a four-day sy...
Details on some of the ways that Black History Month is celebrated in Maine. Richard Dow of Gardine...
This is an oral history of Nancy Dymond. In 1997, Dymond became the first Maine-born African America...
Maine blacks form power organization. Mwana Funzi Rasuli, Bowdoin junior, leading organizer. Maine...
Like civil-rights activists everywhere, those in Maine challenged racism and inequality in postwar A...
Gerald Talbot, 73, three-time president of the Portland chapter of the NAACP and the first African-A...
In 1960, Portland was the second-most segregated city on the West Coast, behind Los Angeles. Four of...
The author recounts his visit to the National Museum of African American History in Washington, D.C....
Profiles of six Mainers, doing their part to make the state better. Paul Trovarello leads a faith-ba...
Portland, the largest city in Maine, has recently become one of the most popular destinations in the...
Welcome to the “We Exist” exhibit. In this section, we have selected quotes that represent and expla...
A brief exploration of how the earliest Black Mainers came to the state, as sailors, soldiers, and s...
WMPG celebrates the lives of Black men and women throughout the month of February. Born and raised o...
June McKenzie, a fifth-generation Mainer, was born in Portland, Maine, in 1929, one of twelve childr...
In September 1826, a group of six African American men addressed a letter “To the Public” on behalf ...
Cover Story piece on I Make My Home in Maine: Honoring Black and African Heritage, a four-day sy...
Details on some of the ways that Black History Month is celebrated in Maine. Richard Dow of Gardine...
This is an oral history of Nancy Dymond. In 1997, Dymond became the first Maine-born African America...
Maine blacks form power organization. Mwana Funzi Rasuli, Bowdoin junior, leading organizer. Maine...
Like civil-rights activists everywhere, those in Maine challenged racism and inequality in postwar A...
Gerald Talbot, 73, three-time president of the Portland chapter of the NAACP and the first African-A...
In 1960, Portland was the second-most segregated city on the West Coast, behind Los Angeles. Four of...
The author recounts his visit to the National Museum of African American History in Washington, D.C....
Profiles of six Mainers, doing their part to make the state better. Paul Trovarello leads a faith-ba...
Portland, the largest city in Maine, has recently become one of the most popular destinations in the...
Welcome to the “We Exist” exhibit. In this section, we have selected quotes that represent and expla...
A brief exploration of how the earliest Black Mainers came to the state, as sailors, soldiers, and s...
WMPG celebrates the lives of Black men and women throughout the month of February. Born and raised o...
June McKenzie, a fifth-generation Mainer, was born in Portland, Maine, in 1929, one of twelve childr...