Jan Vetrhus, president of Historic Eleutherian’s board of directors and board member Roland Newman welcomed WISH TV's Adam Pinsker to the college to learn more about its history.https://www.wishtv.com/celebrating/preservationists-tout-indiana-colleges-legacy-of-flaunting-slavery-laws/ ..
Read More We were happy to host Hanover College students from Dr. Lake Lambert’s class on the theology and life of Martin Luther King, Jr. that was offered this spring. The class included a crash course on African American history.During their visit, the students enjoyed...
Read More Eleutherian College likely would not have existed if not for the perseverance of a Baptist minister from Oxford, Ohio.Elder Thomas Craven, born 19 March 1792 in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, to the Rev. Thomas Lindsey Craven and the former Eleanor Adams, was described as an...
Read More As part of its 2023 celebration of Juneteenth, Madison-Jefferson County Public Library in Madison, Indiana, will host a presentation about a formerly enslaved black family from Mississippi that moved to Jefferson County in the early 1850s. Phyllis Codling McLaughlin will present "Robert Jefferson: A Case of Black...
Read More Join the Madison community for a weekend of celebration marking the 158th anniversary of the day enslaved people in Texas found out that they had been freed. This year also marks the 160th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which was issued on January 1, 1863. ..
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