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 and...
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...
Read More "I learned about Eleutherian College when I was going through documents of my family history that I inherited. My 5th generation grandfather, Abraham Walton, was on the very first board at the college and was instrumental in starting up this college along with many others. Their bravery was unprecedented!...
Read More J. Michael Raley, Hanover College professor of history, will present his latest research on the prominent 19th-century African-American pastor Rev. Moses Broyles during a special Black History Month presentation of the annual Daryl R. Karns Lecture.J. Michael...
Read More Looking back, I realize it’s been a long time since we’ve had an official newsletter. The whole world, it seems, shut down in the midst of the COVID pandemic in March 2020. The Historic Eleutherian College (HEC) board cancelled public events...
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