DNA, Genealogy, Ancestry – what does it all mean? Join international genealogist Sandra Taitt-Eaddy for a fun and fascinating 3-part workshop series designed to demystify the process for “finding your roots” both inside and outside [...]
Lace up your sneakers and jump into a day of spirited family fun as WHS, in partnership with Windsor Public Library’s Wilson Branch, celebrates the beauty and tenacity of the Black experience! Explore music, movement, [...]
DNA, Genealogy, Ancestry – what does it all mean? Join international genealogist Sandra Taitt-Eaddy for a fun and fascinating 3-part workshop series designed to demystify the process for “finding your roots” both inside and outside [...]
DNA, Genealogy, Ancestry – what does it all mean? Join international genealogist Sandra Taitt-Eaddy for a fun and fascinating 3-part workshop series designed to demystify the process for “finding your roots” both inside and outside [...]
Windsor Afro-American Civic Association Mission Statement: “The enhancement and facilitation of equal participation within all aspects of the civic, social and economic processes within the Windsor community.”
Since the Society’s two historic houses have been closed for the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the staff has taken this opportunity to reinterpret the Dr. Hezekiah Chaffee House to more deeply reflect [...]
WHS's new Community History Specialist Sulema DePeyster in the Strong-Howard House garden. My name is Sulema DePeyster, and I am the Community History Specialist at the Windsor Historical Society. My job is to [...]
The service of a doctor requires skill, understanding, patience, and knowledge. To become one after being torn from your family and forced into servitude for a man you know nothing of makes the already arduous feat exceptional. In the late 18th century, after years of enslavement Dr. Primus Manumit became Windsor’s first Black doctor.
Noted Black historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson named the second week in February “Negro History Week” in 1926. He selected this week to correspond with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, which many [...]
One of the many civil rights protests that occurred in the summer of 1963 took place at Carville’s Restaurant in Windsor. It was part of an effort by Hartford's North End Community Action Project (NECAP), which galvanized local civil rights leaders to take a more confrontational approach towards publicizing and solving greater Hartford’s racial issues.