From: The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society <riblackheritagesociety@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 3:09 PM
Subject: How Providence Became a City: The Impact of the Hardscrabble & Snowtown Race Riots of 1824 and 1831
To: ribhs1@gmail.com
How Providence Became a City: The Impact of the Hardscrabble & Snowtown Race Riots of 1824 and 1831
Please join Roger Williams National Memorial and our community partners for Inspired Providence - A bold look at our city's rich cultural history from Roger Williams' "lively experiment" in 1636 to the rise of a Creative Capital.
When: Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 6pm
Where: Old State House, 150 Benefit Street, Providence
Early 19th century Americans viewed their world through the prism of the newspaper. Newspapers with a point of view. Newspapers written with "respectable" townspeople in mind. It was the newspapers that spoke about the townspeople in mind. It was the newspapers that spoke about the tensions in the rapidly growing town of Providence between those with wealth and those without; the tensions between those who had steady employment and those that struggled to get steady employment; the tensions between the African- American neighborhoods and the rest of the town. All too often, these tensions played out in violent ways, as was the case with the race riots in HardScrabble and Snowtown of 1824 and 1831. What was the impact of these uprisings on Providence and its ability to protect its citizens? Join us as Ray Rickman paints a picture of growing Providence, a burgeoning African-American population, and the role of local newspapers in creating divisions around race and class.
Ray Rickman is President of the Rickman Group, a consulting firm that raises funds and conducts management and diversity training for non-profits and small businesses. He is the former Rhode Island Deputy Secretary of State and has served as both Equal Opportunity Officer and Executive Director of the Human Relations Commission for the City of Providence. He is the former President of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society. Ray regularly conducts architectural and African-American history tours of the Brown University area in Providence.
For more information, visit: http://www.nps.gov
This project is made possible with support from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.
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