Tag: #NewHavenCT
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Foote School Students Recover the Life of Pink Primus
Students from the Foote School gathered at the Pardee-Morris House on June 2, 2021, to remember the life of Pink Primus. Students read original poetry and displayed the infographics they […]
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Witness Stones Will Recall Lives of Enslaved Individuals in New Haven
From the New Haven Museum New Haven, Conn. (May 18, 2021)— Students from The Foote School will install commemorative Witness Stones Memorials recalling the lives of Pink and Stepna, two […]
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Curriculum Design and Memorials with Witness Stones
From the Anti-Racist Teaching & Learning Collective on March 22, 2021 The Witness Stones Project began in 2017 in Guilford, Connecticut with the placement of three small plaques commemorating the […]
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Understanding Slavery in the North
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition invited Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Dennis Culliton and community historian Adrienne Joy Burns to speak […]
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Seventh Graders Are Engaged in Several Projects around Black History and Heroes
From the Foote School News published September 17, 2020 Humanities teachers Sheila Lavey and Skye Lee made an exciting connection with the Witness Stones Project. Modeled after the Stolperstein in Europe—stone cubes with […]
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Slavery in New England
Minutes of the 1464th Meeting of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Gregory Tignor and Monica Aspiantoon on February 13, 2018 The President introduced Douglas Nygren who […]