Black History
Stories and experiences connected to Black life, settlement and community in this region.
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Stories and Song in the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Not long ago, the AME Church stood on Thames Street in London, largely forgotten. Built around 1848, it had served London's Black community as a place of worship, gathering, and resistance—a sanctuary for people who had escaped slavery and found freedom in Canada West. The plaque that marks its history tells of John Brown's rumored…
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How the Chatham Coloured All-Stars defied race barriers in baseball
Thanks to the Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society and the University of Windsor's Centre for Digital Scholarship, with the help of the Harding family, the legacy of the Chatham Coloured All-Stars lives on. They reconstructed the 1934 season, and the team's history through newspaper clippings, scrapbooks and interviews with the players and their descendants.
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Underground Railroad Code: fact or fiction?
Presented by quilter, Micki Angyal. On Feb 19, 2020, forty five people attended Micki Angyal’s presentation about the quilt code possibly used by slaves to communicate along the Underground Railroad. Stories have been handed down the generations about the code but there is no hard historical evidence. Of course, it was a SECRET code, so…
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Stanley George Sinclair Grizzle
L - R: Stan Grizzle, Lorne Munro, Ken Beecroft
