Saturday, February 08, 2014

Black History Month

February is recognized as Black History Month. Massachusetts has several events planned throughout the state. The Massachusetts Archives has a great collection of historical documents including:
  • legislative records
  • colonial records
  • passenger lists
  • 1754 slave census
  • military records
  • and much more 
Infoplease has created an interesting website discussing ten important Supreme Court cases in black history that can be found here.