Post by jbrob on Jun 17, 2024 18:20:54 GMT -5
Doc Reveals The New Haven HBCU That Could Have Been
On Wednesday night at the New Haven Museum, New Haveners had a chance to learn, together, about an uncomfortable truth: that, in 1831, New Haven’s white community leaders overwhelming rejected a serious proposal to found what would have been the first U.S. Black college, on the land where the interchange of I‑95 and I‑91 now exists.
www.newhavenindependent.org/article/what_could_have_been_new_haven_museum
On Wednesday night at the New Haven Museum, New Haveners had a chance to learn, together, about an uncomfortable truth: that, in 1831, New Haven’s white community leaders overwhelming rejected a serious proposal to found what would have been the first U.S. Black college, on the land where the interchange of I‑95 and I‑91 now exists.
www.newhavenindependent.org/article/what_could_have_been_new_haven_museum
