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Historical Society members have helped organize "Portraits of a Port: New Bedford, 1847-1947" a summer teachers’ institute at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and have been lecturers in the "Parks as Classrooms" curriculum in New Bedford school and at the Massachusetts Statewide Historical Preservation Conference Acquired
the endangered nineteenth-century Nathan and Polly Johnson house, home
of two of the city’s most active black abolitionists and trades people.
The Society also prepared a National Historical Landmark nomination for
the structure and is working with consultants on its preservation and
reuse as exhibition space and Society headquarters. Spurred
the development in New Bedford’s historic district of the 54th Regiment
Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Plaza, dedicated in February 1999 to
honor black Civil War troops in the 54th and 55th Regiments and the U.S.
Navy. Sponsored
"Presenting Mr.’ Fredrick Douglass," a one-man, two act
play by acclaimed actor Fred Morsell, in conjunction with the New Bedford
Public Schools. For a week Morsell gave daily performances in city schools
and a final, free public performance at New Bedford’s Zeiterion Theater. Initiated
"Remembering the West End," an ongoing oral history project
to document this New Bedford neighborhood, long a center of community
life among people of color. Created
The Heritage Trail, a guided tour of sites significant in the history
of people of color in New Bedford, including principal Underground Railroad
sites. Developed
Frederick Douglass: The New Bedford Years, 1838-1843, which opened at
the New Bedford Art Museum August 1, 1998, and is now a traveling exhibition. Sponsored
the showing in New Bedford of Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass and
Harriet Tubman Series of Narrative Paintings, a traveling exhibition from
Hampton University Museum. Cosponsored Faces of Whaling, the first local exhibition ever mounted on whale men of color, and aided New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park in compiling oral histories of surviving whale men. |
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