Black History Month
QUINCY — The Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County is sponsoring several programs to celebrate February as Black History Month, including two lectures about civil rights advocates, an informal discussion following the American Heroes Bicentennial Speaker Series presentation and presentations for area youths which focus on the Underground Railroad. The first presentation, “The Life…
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QUINCY — The Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County is offering two programs to raise awareness of February as Black History Month. “Slavery and Abolition in Northeast Missouri and Western Illinois,” a program by Patrick Hotle, Culver-Stockton College professor emeritus in history, and HSQAC board member and local historian Terrell Dempsey is scheduled to…
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Faye Dant, executive director of Jim’s Journey: The Huck Finn Freedom Center, gave her presentation Sunday at the History Museum at 332 Maine.
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Faye Dant, a fifth-generation African American Hannibalian and descendent of Missouri slaves, is the executive director of Hannibal’s black history museum, Jim’s Journey: The Huck Finn Freedom Center. She grew up in Douglasville and attended the segregated Douglass School, Hannibal High School and Hannibal-LaGrange College. She is giving a presentation on Feb. 19 at the…
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